# 1,000,000 pageviews in 2 weeks...! Why? Because Discourse. š
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891
**Category:** Praise
**Created:** [August 27, 2017, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891 "2017-08-27T21:17:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/21 "2017-09-16T14:48:57Z")
Well, I just keep it updated, and donāt use a lot of plugins. The only two I use are discourse-affiliate (which unfortunately only does Amazon-links, and not even UK-ones) and retort. I do have the standard ones enabled.
Itās been relatively unproblematic, although I am thinking about storing images externally (S3 or Digital Ocean Object Storage).
As for financing, I run ads on the main site, not the forum. The reason for this is, that people can donate to have the ads removed, and I havenāt worked out how to turn ads off for some users on the forum, so I left it ad-free for now. If I were just running a forum, Iād probably just throw some ads in there (though Iād like to be able to turn them off for some users).
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### Author:  [@Dibbyo456](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dibbyo456)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2017, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/22 "2017-09-23T11:44:52Z")
holy moly, thatās giant.. still on 2gb ram. š
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2017, 1:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/23 "2017-09-23T13:27:11Z")
Weāve scaled things up a bit to handle and done some performance-related tweaks and upgrades. Weāre now on a High-Availability CPU (āHigh CPUā) with 12GB / 8 CPUs.
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### Author:  [@Tumi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tumi)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2017, 1:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/24 "2017-12-14T13:47:01Z")
How much bandwitdh do you need?
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### Author:  [@daath](https://meta.discourse.org/u/daath)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/25 "2017-12-14T14:39:02Z")
Not much - There arenāt a lot of media on the forum š
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/26 "2018-01-20T21:35:45Z")
7 posts were split to a new topic: [Split from ā1M pageviews in 2 weeksā](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-from-1m-pageviews-in-2-weeks/78562)
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 3:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/27 "2018-03-28T03:55:32Z")
Really enjoyed Patreonās recent write-up about you š Congrats on your continued success!
> **[Patreon | News | Home](https://news.patreon.com/articles/monetization-strategies-bitcoin-pub/)**
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/28 "2018-03-28T05:33:10Z")
ah, thanks so much!
so much of our continued growth has been because of Discourseā¦ i canāt express how grateful i am to the team here and the product!
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/30 "2019-09-06T21:51:10Z")
loved meeting some of the team today @ the CMX event!
this software has literally changed my lifeā¦ and the lives of many folks that weāve been able to connect with from all over the world.
š THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AMAZING and IMPORTANT WORK! š
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/31 "2022-06-18T06:10:48Z")
This is now a redirect to a Discord server. What happened?
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### Author:  [@asirota](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asirota)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/32 "2022-06-18T14:50:44Z")
It probably was too expensive to run discourse for a chat style system for 100k+ people that continued to grow without any constraints. But thatās just a guess.
Also the timing of conversation in cryptocurrency is important. They are shilling and inventing and the rest of it. So synchronized chat in real-time is probably more appropriate than anything.
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### Author:  [@Jack855](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jack855)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/33 "2022-06-18T15:50:54Z")
40 Gb to small for large community with 1 million views, storage play a huge role on communties. not only cpu power. Even computer relax with more storage.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/34 "2022-06-18T17:48:30Z")
> [@asirota](#):
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> It probably was too expensive to run discourse for a chat style system for 100k+ people that continued to grow without any constraints. But thatās just a guess.
Well, there sure arenāt 100k+ people on the Discord server.
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### Author:  [@asirota](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asirota)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/35 "2022-06-18T17:49:19Z")
Hmmm. Itās funny how crypto works isnāt it ā here today, somewhere else tomorrow.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/36 "2022-06-18T17:51:50Z")
And therefore very compatible with ephemeral chat media ā¦
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2022, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/37 "2022-06-18T17:53:04Z")
Good catch. From that can we conclude the migration away from Discourse was not a brilliant success? š¤
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### Author:  [@asirota](https://meta.discourse.org/u/asirota)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/38 "2022-06-19T09:41:49Z")
I donāt think you can say that. Like many projects, the leads could have lost interest or got what they needed out of the exercise and reached their objectives.
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### Author:  [@Timelord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Timelord)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2025, 8:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/39 "2025-11-28T20:07:17Z")
Wonder what happened with this, it looks like it is running on XenForo now.
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/40 "2025-11-29T01:11:25Z")
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