📚 node [[discourse]]

Civilized discussion for your community

Discourse is super flexible open source forum software. It's a top [[Community Tool]].

The private company behind Discourse is Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc.. They offer paid hosting for forums starting at $100/month.

You can apply for free hosting for open source projects

Discourse for Teams

There is a new (late 2020) Discourse for Teams offering that starts at $20/month for up to 5 team members on a fully private forum.

Discourse for Teams is a private, focused version of Discourse with special tools to enhance remote work, productivity and internal discussions.

Self-hosting Discourse is quite reasonable to do on a ~$10 month VPS. The instructions and updates are very well done to be automated, and you can just cut-and-paste commands. It uses [[Docker]], plus a pretty simply process to add additional plugins and re-run the Docker process.

There are instructions for running a second Docker instance to enable [[Discourse email posting]] in an integrated way as well.

📖 stoas
⥱ context
⥅ related node [[a cheatsheet on discourse]]
⥅ related node [[decentralized discourse graph]]
⥅ related node [[numerical discourses of the buddha]]
⥅ related node [[united federation of discourse graphs]]