And please mention that the question is about a site on the free plan. The fact that your access to features is limited might be relevant for those who try to help you.
Could there be a tag like free-plan or something similar for related topics in support? Otherwise, it may get confused with https://free.discourse.group.
This is great news for lots of people, Nice work !
However, I’m wondering the rationale behind the thinking as to why would a free community not need:
I know that since the self hosting process has been simplified recently and people could just opt for that using a cheap server on Hetzner for example if they wanted the full Discourse feature set.
So its free until you hit the limits then one must either upgrade to a hosted plan or seek their own hosting? So essentially its a ‘as long as you make it before hitting limits’ free evaluation of Discourse?
But again, if this happens, anyone can restore a backup on their own cheap vps.
All of our plans have limits – Starter, Pro, and Business included.
In all cases, you could say the same thing. Once you hit the limits, you have a choice among:
(a) Live within the limits
(b) Upgrade
(c) Migrate (to self hosting, another provider, or another platform)
All three options are valid.
In practice, we do see people live within their limits indefinitely on many plans, while others getting more value out of the product choose to upgrade.
But ideally, we’re defining the plans well enough such that we’re allowing people with limited means to live within their means, and providing sufficient value to people with greater means to upgrade.
The limits for the Free plan were chosen with the same rationale in mind.
Ahh okay makes sense - thanks for the explanation . I think I’m going to start using Discourse as my personal site again now as I don’t need anything super special/custom for that .
I don’t mind the rest of the limits applied to the free plan as I understand that peoplw need an incentive to upgrade.
But I peronally still think the groups is a bit restrictive because a new small communuty may still need to create private categories/groups. But overall, its a great achivement to have a free plan.
Oh wow, this is incredible! I’ve hoped for this for a long, long time. I’m so glad you were able to make it happen! I’ll be very curious to see how this works out, whether it brings in a lot of new folks, etc. Congrats on a huge milestone!
프로 팁: 지원 요청을 게시할 때, 사이트가 무료 호스팅 티어에 있음을 언급하고 free-plan 태그를 사용하세요. 이렇게 하면 커뮤니티가 사용자의 경험에 맞는 조언을 제공하도록 도와줄 수 있습니다.
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. I think I’m going to start using Discourse as my personal site again now as I don’t need anything super special/custom for that 
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