# Can we make discourse installation easier
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784 "2024-10-01T04:36:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@gordonhot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gordonhot)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 4:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/1 "2024-10-01T04:36:04Z")
skip various basic settings and debug after successful installation, such as email?
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/2 "2024-10-01T04:37:28Z")
Hi there, could you elaborate further on this, like what basic settings you would want to skip?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/3 "2024-10-01T13:05:59Z")
Your first sign up is going to need email so an install without email doesn’t get you very far.
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/4 "2024-10-01T13:33:58Z")
I find email the most frustrating part of the setup myself, so it would be nice if this could eventually be optional — but it’s necessary at the moment for account verification, password resets, and some other functionality.
Is email the main concern for you, or did you find other steps unnecessary?
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### Author:  [@gordonhot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gordonhot)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/5 "2024-10-02T08:01:01Z")
> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> email
email
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@gordonhot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gordonhot)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/6 "2024-10-03T04:58:37Z")
If you could refer to the installation of WordPress, it would be great 🤣
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/7 "2024-10-03T09:10:10Z")
Either way, email will be needed, so one cannot try to “skip” it. Along the way, it will have to be used (ways noted above my Kris).
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2024, 1:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-make-discourse-installation-easier/328784/8 "2024-10-03T13:20:08Z")
If we _really_ want to skip email setup, I think we could.
Giving the user an option to seed the admin user with a username and password but with gibberish email. This will lock the user out since password reset would fail.
Essentially it’s like having a development setup. That said, I am not sure if this is a good idea since the self-hoster would skip setting up email but would have to learn themselves some Rails. ⚖