Discourse is great software with one dark pattern that I absolutely loathe: by default, it turns on an obnoxious setting to send you digest emails when you stop visiting a forum.
So when you sign up for a forum to ask a single question and then move on, rather than correctly infer you are not interested in the forum anymore, they start sending you low-value emails until you get tired enough of them to login and change the setting.
If you run a Discourse, please change the default setting. Don’t use lame growth hacking features to nudge people into participating in a community they don’t want to be a part of.
Shared hosting usually doesn't have docker or a vm available to you. Often you get to upload PHP, maybe Node, Ruby or Pyhon too and accept all their opinionated defaults. Often this makes it incompatiable with anything not specifically designed for shared hosting.
So when you sign up for a forum to ask a single question and then move on, rather than correctly infer you are not interested in the forum anymore, they start sending you low-value emails until you get tired enough of them to login and change the setting.
If you run a Discourse, please change the default setting. Don’t use lame growth hacking features to nudge people into participating in a community they don’t want to be a part of.