# Discourse and my personal experience using it

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [March 21, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-my-personal-experience-using-it/358373 "2025-03-21T18:30:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![tdperry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tdperry/32/496593_2.png) [@tdperry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tdperry)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-and-my-personal-experience-using-it/358373/11 "2025-04-16T11:24:33Z")

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Thanks, but I’m used to being able to install directly from the ACP in both XenForo and NodeBB.  
Not really worth going through the hassle of paying for that ability now that I figured out that one quirk. 😉  
I’m already averaging about $2800 a year on sites/servers that I get no income from. They are just a hobby for me.  
If I’m going to start investing money into a script, I want it to do a lot more than a basic forum with some tweaks. Ergo my astro site that I run.

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