> Aside from the occasional annoyances of self hosting, that cynically I have suspected is just a way to drive users towards their hosted version I'm a long-time Discourse employee and this is certainly not intentional,…
> which is where most OSS discussion hosting would exist You can host it yourself for much less than $50/mo, some people run small instances on a raspberry pi (I work for Discourse)
Hello! I work for Discourse, it's open source so you can self-host most sites on a cloud provider like Digital Ocean for ~$20/mo
> it is not clear to me who this serves customers
Discourse is not a centralized platform, so it's up to individual sites to ensure they're compliant with data and privacy regulations.
(disclaimer: I work for Discourse) Discourse has an AI plugin that admins can run on their community to generate their own sentiment analysis (among other things), though it's not quite as thorough as this write up!…
I've seen people allude to this lack of "geography" here and there, but this really thoughtfully frames the problem in a way I haven't seen before. Thanks for writing all that out. I don't have any immediate…
The first 3 points are something we hope to solve by making theming/configuration for new admins easier. Ideally I'd like to be in a place where those are all easily editable and Discourse can be as dense/sparse as…
I really appreciate the time you spent writing this feedback. A lot of the time someone will say "I hate Discourse" and never offer anything substantial. I'm not going to respond to everything here, but I just want you…
Hello! I work for Discourse and while I realize you don't really know why you struggle with it, if you do come up with any feedback I'd be happy to read it here or on our Meta community. I'd really like to make…
> Aside from the occasional annoyances of self hosting, that cynically I have suspected is just a way to drive users towards their hosted version I'm a long-time Discourse employee and this is certainly not intentional,…
> which is where most OSS discussion hosting would exist You can host it yourself for much less than $50/mo, some people run small instances on a raspberry pi (I work for Discourse)
Hello! I work for Discourse, it's open source so you can self-host most sites on a cloud provider like Digital Ocean for ~$20/mo
> it is not clear to me who this serves customers
Discourse is not a centralized platform, so it's up to individual sites to ensure they're compliant with data and privacy regulations.
(disclaimer: I work for Discourse) Discourse has an AI plugin that admins can run on their community to generate their own sentiment analysis (among other things), though it's not quite as thorough as this write up!…
I've seen people allude to this lack of "geography" here and there, but this really thoughtfully frames the problem in a way I haven't seen before. Thanks for writing all that out. I don't have any immediate…
The first 3 points are something we hope to solve by making theming/configuration for new admins easier. Ideally I'd like to be in a place where those are all easily editable and Discourse can be as dense/sparse as…
I really appreciate the time you spent writing this feedback. A lot of the time someone will say "I hate Discourse" and never offer anything substantial. I'm not going to respond to everything here, but I just want you…
Hello! I work for Discourse and while I realize you don't really know why you struggle with it, if you do come up with any feedback I'd be happy to read it here or on our Meta community. I'd really like to make…