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by Modified3019 1048 days ago
Yep. Any platform run by someone else can kick you off for any reason, any time.

You should consider looking into running discourse, which is a modernized forum software: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

Nice examples of what it looks like:

https://discourse.nixos.org/

https://forum.level1techs.com/

As a bonus, the content and community will be accessible to search engines, so it’s easy to find answers to problems that gave been already been addressed.

In general, consider combining the two, where discourse is the anchor of the community that can’t be yanked out from under you, while discord is the one that sells the data from your players in exchange for free voice and text chat.

It’s also possible to enable logging in with discord credentials https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-discord-login-for-dis...

As well as pushing content from discord to discourse so it’s not hidden and losable: https://blog.discourse.org/2021/05/discord-and-discourse-bet...
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tikkun 1047 days ago
To any devs looking for a project: I wish there was something that was vote based like reddit, and open source like discourse, well designed / clear and simple UX, and that required monthly payment (perhaps an indie dev, a startup plan, and an enterprise plan) for any commercial/profit generating deployments, with no payment required for deployments that don't generate any revenue. I think the market is pretty small (it's basically the market size of discourse, plus maybe a bit bigger if you can get some reddit/discord communities to migrate to it), but it'd be neat.
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quickthrower2 1048 days ago
The key point is owning your own domain as well. Without that you are kickoffable by whoever owns the domain you are using.
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sdfzguf 1048 days ago
Even with an own domain, you're not 100% save. But I agree nevertheless.
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quickthrower2 1047 days ago
Yes own domain plus self host for communities is necessary to really own it. Either but not both can leave you with an issue.
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mangoscribble 1047 days ago
the main issue is $$$
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creamyhorror 1045 days ago
It's just the cost of doing business with some control. Get a cheap domain and a low-end VPS/VM with a fixed IP (Vultr, DO, Hetzner). You can't really expect to get everything free.
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Etrnl_President 1046 days ago
You can host a simple forum on a RaspberryPi, you can stack a few of them together for better performance.

Just food for thought.

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mangoscribble 1046 days ago
need to pay $$ for static IP address
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quickthrower2 1047 days ago
$20/y should be enough. That is a lot for some people though. But for a business it should be no big deal.
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