wavyknife

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by wavyknife 2y ago
> Aside from the occasional annoyances of self hosting, that cynically I have suspected is just a way to drive users towards their hosted version I'm a long-time Discourse employee and this is certainly not intentional, I'm obv
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by wavyknife 2y ago
> which is where most OSS discussion hosting would exist You can host it yourself for much less than $50/mo, some people run small instances on a raspberry pi (I work for Discourse)
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by wavyknife 2y ago
Hello! I work for Discourse, it's open source so you can self-host most sites on a cloud provider like Digital Ocean for ~$20/mo
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by wavyknife 2y ago
> it is not clear to me who this serves customers
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by wavyknife 2y ago
Discourse is not a centralized platform, so it's up to individual sites to ensure they're compliant with data and privacy regulations.
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by wavyknife 2y ago
(disclaimer: I work for Discourse) Discourse has an AI plugin that admins can run on their community to generate their own sentiment analysis (among other things), though it's not quite as thorough as this write up! https://
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by wavyknife 5y ago
I've seen people allude to this lack of "geography" here and there, but this really thoughtfully frames the problem in a way I haven't seen before. Thanks for writing all that out. I don't have any immediate solutio
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by wavyknife 5y ago
The first 3 points are something we hope to solve by making theming/configuration for new admins easier. Ideally I'd like to be in a place where those are all easily editable and Discourse can be as dense/sparse as you'd
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by wavyknife 5y ago
I really appreciate the time you spent writing this feedback. A lot of the time someone will say "I hate Discourse" and never offer anything substantial. I'm not going to respond to everything here, but I just want you to kno
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by wavyknife 5y ago
Hello! I work for Discourse and while I realize you don't really know why you struggle with it, if you do come up with any feedback I'd be happy to read it here or on our Meta community. I'd really like to make Discourse work