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> 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…

> 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…

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

> it is not clear to me who this serves customers

Discourse is not a centralized platform, so it's up to individual sites to ensure they're compliant with data and privacy regulations.

(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 …

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.…

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 D…

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 t…

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 comm…