Discourse is the open-source forum software powering this very forum Other uses of Discourse around the network include: talk.beta.nyc discourse.opensavannah.org (managed by @carlvlewis ) forum.codeforphilly.org (managed by @chris ) Outside the network, open-source projects making effective use …

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Are BetaNYC, Open Savannah and Code for Philly all paying for their Discourse instances?

Code for Philly hosts our Discourse instance among several others for open source/nonprofit projects on a single $5/mo Digital Ocean VM and I handle backups/updates. Discourse has a sort-of-supported multisite configuration that was a bit tough to figure out initially but lets me host any number of …

@ninakin Ours is self-hosted on digital ocean and we pay ~$6 a month.

P.S. — we have changed to discourse.opensavannah.org

We’re thinking of introducing one at Open Charlotte in the near future. I too ran with a $5 Digital Ocean box (+$1 for weekly backups) using the pre-built Docker+Ubuntu image they offer. I installed Discourse via Docker and I also host one other application on the box. For SSL, if you’re running mu…

Hello @chris and friends-- I’ve been thinking about Discourse and our network and am wondering: is it possible for us to change elements of the UI at all?

Short answer: yes Longer answer: it depends There are tons of options, there are tons of plugins, we can graft in some of our own CSS Do you have any particular sorts of changes in mind already?

I was kind of thinking that it might be nice to do usability testing and figure out if there are small changes we could make to improve the experience of our users. But that wouldn’t be worth it if we couldn’t actually do anything!

It would be useful to identify any recurring problems, but we’d then have to look at each issue case-by-case to determine the best way to address it. The more we change outside of config and plugins the more we have to maintain, and without running our own version entirely those sorts of changes wil…

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Tools

slack-chats , information-sharing , slack

3

760

January 7, 2022

PSAA: Discourse Updates and Posts of Note

Announcements

best-of-discourse , community-care , discourse

0

626

March 5, 2022

Slack vs Discourse and when to use each

0

3898

June 18, 2018

Meta Discussion Post: Renaming Discourse?

Questions & Feedback

tools

22

1625

September 8, 2020

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Technical Skillsharing

documentation , community-care

1

633

March 18, 2022

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