Originally published at: Free Hosting for Open Source v2
Nearly two years ago we started very carefully experimenting with free hosting of open source projects. Today we’re announcing the next iteration of our free hosting program, casting a much wider net this time. Free Discourse Hosting For Your Open Source Project Do you run a popular open source project? Then you might be eligible…
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How will this affect communities in the V1 program?
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Projects on the legacy plan will continue to be hosted under the terms that applied when they signed up, meaning they will not need to change their domain names.
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This is incredible!!! Thanks so much @erlend_sh and Discourse team!!!
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All credit to @erlend_sh he has been driving this forward!
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@erlend_sh We’d like to move Gitcoin to use the free version possible. Does this allow for a custom domain? If not, how do we qualify for the 50% off?
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The free plan no longer allows for custom domains. The 50% discount is generally for not-for-profit open source projects, which puts Gitcoin in a bit of a grey area. But since it literally exists for the purpose of supporting open source that tips the scale in your favour 
I’ll send you a PM to discuss specifics.
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When you say you can’t help import existing mailing lists and the like, does that mean it’s still possible for us to do it manually or only if we self-host? We have 17 years of mailing lists to not lose and we’re really not trying to self host anything anymore 
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You can absolutely do it yourself. All our import scripts are open source, so you can set up a local dev site and run the import. From there, you can take a backup of your dev site, upload it to your free hosted site, and shoot us an email. We’ll work with you to restore the backup.
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Awesome, guess I know what I’ll be doing this weekend 
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Are you sure? The opening post explicitly says:
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Yes, I’m quite sure . We will not assist with imports, but we’re happy to restore a Discourse backup, whether that backup is from an import, another hosting site, self-hosting, etc.
Let me see if I can edit the copy there a bit to be clearer.
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FAQ in the linked blog post updated.
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Hello 
This is unclear to me why allow_restore parameter is disabled in these opensource discourses.
Although it looks natural that no support is provided for custom imports requiring ssh-ing the server and doing the technical work, moving from old.discourse.example.org to new.discourse.group is basically a file save/open operation requiring no technical knowledge. Am I missing something?
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Restore is disabled across our entire hosting. Free, standard, business, enterprise, everything. This has nothing to do with our open source hosting. We handle restores for our customers, even the free ones, for security and support reasons.
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Ah OK thank you @jomaxro, the reason wasn’t clear to me.
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Apenas configurando um deles. Queremos habilitar o login via GitHub, Twitter e Google. Isso será possível e podemos configurá-lo da maneira habitual? Ou isso é algo que o Discourse poderia fazer por nós, já que está no seu domínio discourse.group?
Se eu me lembro corretamente, configurar os aplicativos em um ou mais desses serviços exige autenticação com o TLD.
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Qual deles?
Temos muitos usuários usando logins sociais no discourse.group. O primeiro site que testei está usando GitHub e Google.
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OK, legal! Obrigado por confirmar. Não faço muitos desses e costumo esquecer os passos que não executo há algum tempo. Vou dar uma olhada e volto a falar com você se tiver algum problema.
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Obrigado, equipe! Parece que isso também está disponível no painel de administração. Desculpe pela pergunta de iniciante e muito obrigado pela ajuda!
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