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Xipher | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6b1b8e04

Just looked at the pricing for this... 'thing'.

$50 a /month/ for 100 'members' and a whole /10gb/ of storage!? It even has 'secure web access' as a 'feature', not to mention 50k 'page views'...

It didn't cost $50 a month nearly 10-12 years ago to run a fully featured forum for thousands with multiple times the storage and a whole hell of a lot more 'page views' as well as real time chat, events and calendars, etc, what even is this?
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Cube Drone | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @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
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Xipher | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6b1b8e04 Ok that makes /way/ more sense, I thought I was taking crazy pills or something!
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Cube Drone | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @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