Would like to try this with the free plan as others might be trying this soon and scratching their head like me.
The AI (ChatGPT and Claude) lead me to
Is this the proper direction to take?
AI-generated summary
Users discussed making a chat room the homepage on Discourse, specifically for the free plan. EricGT asked if using theme components was the correct approach, but RGJ noted that this method is unavailable because the free plan does not support theme components. Falco suggested that this functionality should be a core feature with site settings to define defaults. The discussion concluded when tobiaseigen announced that the feature has been implemented natively, allowing users to set a chat channel as the default homepage.
It should definitely be a core feature, with it being an option here
and a site setting to set defaults.
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This is now a thing!
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