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Discourse Public Data Dump

Given the advent of AI and the need for large datasets on local development machines, we have pulled together a quick pattern for getting a “workable” copy of all public (visible by anon) data from a Discourse forum. Keeping the documentation up to date at: Why you care? You want a local database with LOTS of topics You don’t want ANY personal data on your system This is still in a very rough shape, but it is workable for initial experiments and gives you a very populous local setup.