@e418e2c7 tbch their full service hosted pricing subsidizes the development of their free client, you can run a Discourse application for 1000 members on a $10/mo Hetzner box ez 

 @6b1b8e04 Ok that makes /way/ more sense, I thought I was taking crazy pills or something! 

 @e418e2c7 Also Discourse supports real-time-chat and events and calendars and a bunch of other standard forum features either out of the box or with FOSS first-party plugins