Hello, I would like to use Discourse to open my community. I can not afford to pay to use the standard plan. So I would like to have a Free Plan available so that we can benefit from a free community. What do you think ? Thank you in advance.

Discourse is probably totally overkill for 1-2 members… You probably won’t even notice the speed and performance difference with a setup like phpBB plus ClearDB which you can probably put on a free shared hosting plan on many cloud platforms. For such small number of users, plus zero $ requirement…

[image] romano97002: The number of members would be 1 to 2 but no more unfortunately. For such a small number, there is actually a great way to use discourse for free. Simply pick any of the many, many discourse communities that already exist. You and your two buddies can join for free, no in…

That sounds dubious. I personally would not want my own proverbial community to be used as such, unless if the conversations matched the community’s theme and topic. However, PMs are free reign, to a fault. Where that fault lies, well, that is determined by the community.

This thread is getting weird. 1-2 members? Is that a typo? Facebook offers groups and private message for free?

[image] Old_El_Paso: This thread is getting weird. 1-2 members? Is that a typo? Agreed. If it’s just 1 then that’s not a community. It’s just… a person.

Put your hand deep in your pocket and find 12$. That will give you a year of hosting on Aruba’s 1$ plan. Works well.

Hello and thank you for having answered me, I will ask a friend or a relative to set up Discourse for me because the facility has complex area unfortunately. I’ll let you know. I would nevertheless have a question: Once you have installed Discourse, is it easy to set up and moderate your communi…

[image] romano97002: Once you have installed Discourse, is it easy to set up and moderate your community? One of the easiest I’ve come across. There isn’t a slew of pages/navigation to jump through (cough vBulletin cough), everything is neatly aligned and tucked away where you’d expect to fin…

Good evening and thank you for having answered me, Okay. Thanks a lot for the screens. I have an idea in order to be able to propose a free plan proposing the hosting and the creation of its forum Discourse: I suggest adding some ads on the forums having the free plan. People who would use Adbl…

[image] romano97002: Once you have installed Discourse, is it easy to set up and moderate your community? We can support you via the Community Building channel here at meta if you have moderation questions. [image] romano97002: What do you think ? There is no roadmap for a free plan a…

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