Well, I just keep it updated, and donât 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.
Itâs 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 havenât 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, Iâd probably just throw some ads in there (though Iâd like to be able to turn them off for some users).
Weâve scaled things up a bit to handle and done some performance-related tweaks and upgrades. Weâre now on a High-Availability CPU (âHigh CPUâ) with 12GB / 8 CPUs.
NĂŁo acho que vocĂȘ possa dizer isso. Como muitos projetos, os lĂderes podem ter perdido o interesse ou obtido o que precisavam do exercĂcio e alcançado seus objetivos.