The cheapest tier for Discourse is $50 a month for up to 100 users. https://www.discourse.org/pricing# With self hosting you can probably get that lower at the cost of your time getting it set up and making sure it’s cheaper than the options they provide.
As much as we all collectively roll our eyes when we see Discord being used for community discussion, it makes sense from a maintainer’s point of view.
Yeah see that’s the sort of conclusive mindset that’s got us here. I don’t mean to insinuate you’re wrong for coming to that conclusion, but “It costs money or effort so let’s use a worse option because it’s convenient” is part of the reason we don’t have a lot of good solutions in this domain.
I’ll also admit the options these days are limited depending on your goals for a project. If you want to reach the most eyes and have the highest draw of potential contributors, having a discord server makes sense. My gripe is when technical discussion or support take place there.
When technical discussions and support is over Discord it doesn’t bother me too much, but when projects don’t accept issues anywhere but Discord then I get angry.
The cheapest tier for Discourse is $50 a month for up to 100 users. https://www.discourse.org/pricing# With self hosting you can probably get that lower at the cost of your time getting it set up and making sure it’s cheaper than the options they provide.
As much as we all collectively roll our eyes when we see Discord being used for community discussion, it makes sense from a maintainer’s point of view.
Edit: Discourse has free options for creators
Yeah see that’s the sort of conclusive mindset that’s got us here. I don’t mean to insinuate you’re wrong for coming to that conclusion, but “It costs money or effort so let’s use a worse option because it’s convenient” is part of the reason we don’t have a lot of good solutions in this domain.
I’ll also admit the options these days are limited depending on your goals for a project. If you want to reach the most eyes and have the highest draw of potential contributors, having a discord server makes sense. My gripe is when technical discussion or support take place there.
When technical discussions and support is over Discord it doesn’t bother me too much, but when projects don’t accept issues anywhere but Discord then I get angry.