Me and an admin are trying to install Discourse on a cloud or whatever, but we hit a roadblock, and it was finding a supported install without having to pay any money. I tried searching, but all I found was something about Heroku, which I didn’t use. Oh, and I don’t have $150 to pay someone to do it…

[image] justanotherperson: without having to pay any money Discourse is free but computer rescources are not. Have you had a look at Communiteq ?

Oh. Lemme get my megaphone to call twofoursixeight.

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[image] justanotherperson: twofoursixeight you meant @twofoursixeight ?

Yes, they are working together on this [1] I know because I am on their forum ↩︎

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You posted in this topic not long ago too [image] Is there a way to have a free forum? hosting My friends and I are on a forum that have very tight rules, so we can never interact. We were hoping we could find a forum that free, where you can chat, is that possible? @not…

That looks like what twofoursixeight set up on, but I’ll (try) to get in touch with him about that. Oh and by the way, @ondrej that thing is even shorter than the Discourse free trial.

[image] justanotherperson: supported Someone has to pay for the resources it uses and spend some of their own limited lifespan making it work and keeping it working. How could it be free, except at someone else’s expense? What do they gain, except perhaps harvesting your users email addresses…

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merefield (Robert) April 2, 2024, 4:10pm 4

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