Read-only static HTML copy to retire Discourse instance

[AquaL1te]

I’m considering to retire the Discourse instance I’m hosting since it doesn’t get much traction. But I would like to know if it’s possible to host an read-only copy. Because the topics are useful for others to find. Is it possible to create a copy without running the database and all dependencies? So, just a static HTML copy.

[Falco]

There are quite a few topics about that like

A basic Discourse archival tool

It seems that it’s pretty tricky to save an entire discourse site to a static version. According to this post by Jeff Atwood, it’s “much harder than you’d think”. It doesn’t appear that this is a priority for the Discourse team, either, which is perfectly understandable. For my purposes, though, I found that I really needed some way to generate basic, static HTML versions of my Discourse sites. I’ve been using Discourse for a couple of years now as a discussion board when teaching my college ma…

https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-an-old-forum-in-place-to-start-a-new-discourse-forum/13433/14?u=falco