Sandbox Forum with admin access

[feulf (Federico)]

Is there a sandbox forum with admin access? I’d want to test few api calls on a forum that already have quite a bit of content.

Thanks!

[ondrej]

Hey welcome to the community!

You can explore Discourse at https://try.discourse.org. However, if you want to try admin access, feel free to spin up a free trial with the plan you feel most appropriate for your needs.

Discourse pricing

[merefield (Robert)]

You can spin up your own if you want on a VPS using the open source standard install and if you look at the bottom of this guide you can see how to seed it with test fixtures:

Set up a staging server

There are several tricks that can help when you are setting up a staging server. What is a staging server? A staging server is essentially a clone of a production site. It also resides on a server, and functions identically. It runs inside a Docker container, just as a normal Discourse site does. It exists to give you a place to try risky things out, or to trial things that you cannot easily hide from your users. It is very useful for trialling adverts using the Discourse Ad Plugin, or if you…