I’ve just noticed that if you would try to open a private user’s profile in a new tab, it will show a broken layout, sometimes with repeating the same fields twice or more times (seems like a repeated cyclic loop). It wasn’t like that before the Discourse’s recent update.
I’m new here and it might sound stupidity, but I just didn’t find the answer on my question during the registration on this website, so I wanted to ask if you mind: is it free to have an account on meta.discourse.org? I know that Discourse it’s a paid CMS itself, so that’s why I’m asking.
No you don’t have to buy or pay anything at all. You can even just be a person who is interested in Discourse and has questions or wants more info. There are no catches or strings here.
We do offer hosting and we have partner organizations who also provide support and Discourse hosting services. For example, Discourse Hosting, Literate Computing or Communiteq. But no obligation to join this forum.
Yes, that’s what I’m actually decided to ask such a question. I’ve just seen some paid offers and even though I’ve created an account with no any charges, but decided to ask about that anyway. Once again, I do apologize for this goofy asks if so.
Discourse is a free and open source forum software. You can download the software for free and run it from your house, and we even have written guides for it Discourse on a Raspberry Pi | Blog. The same way you can run it internally at your school or company, and it’s all free.
We do offer paid hosting, as there are many people who need a forum and need high availability or other requirements where it makes sense to outsource it to a professional service.
@Falco, thank you! Frankly, I didn’t even know about that. I used to think that Discourse it’s a paid platfrom I’ve been dealing with WordPress since 2012 and kinda got used to an open-source platforms where you have the ability to change everything you would ever wanted.
I have sent the link to this thread on blenderartists.org to let others know about that, since I am just a regular user there
Discourse itself is modeled after Wordpress explicitly, and here you also have the ability to change everything you ever wanted.
That said, since web development moved away from every page being a single scriplet into web frameworks, and with heavily customized Wordpress instances becoming security nightmares, for Discourse we adopted a model where changes are shipped as plugins and themes, so while you still may need to do some work during updates, you can technically build a plugin on top of our existing extensibility interfaces and make it more robust and a little less of a headache for updates.
I have recently opened a thread about an issue related to a hidden user’s profile and it’s just been fixed. @Arkshine said that you would need to update some module from your side.
First of all, thank you for your effort with solving that problem, but it seems like it hasn’t been fixed anyway An issue still remains. I have asked Bart to check that from his end and it’s still the same.
I checked out your forum; I can see the error, but the component on your forum has not been updated yet (it doesn’t sound like a cache issue and you are not using a CDN).
Those were the days.
An issue still remains. I have asked Bart to check that from his end and it’s still the same.
