Self-Hosting Discourse Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

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This is terrific!

@Falco

To alleviate this, we’ve made SMTP optional. The new installer allows you to skip SMTP setup entirely by relying on Discourse ID for login.

SMTP setup was always the number one issue people setting up Discourse for the first time struggled with, so we are excited to finally remove this hurdle in our install.

@Falco

To self-host Discourse, you’ll need:

• A cloud server (from providers like DigitalOcean, AWS, Vultr, or similar)
• About 10 minutes of your time

Just to be clear, we still need to configure SMTP to send emails, right? The SMTP skip is solely for the installation part? As a non-tech-savvy user, how the post is written casts some doubts