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by chinmoy 4677 days ago
Do you have any plans to open source this for people who wants to install Moot on their own server? As a forum junkie, I'm excited about Moot, but I hope you do understand that to be successful as a platform you have to give the option to self-host :)
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Our infrastructure is built as a service. I totally understand that many people want to run their forum on their own network and that's totally ok. There's plenty of products out there servicing that market.

If you were to compare us to blogging companies we're more inline with tumblr than wordpress. We're a service that makes it simple for anyone to add forums and commenting.

Our service obviously isn't for everyone, but we feel like there is a large market for simple to set up and manage forums that can integrate with little to no technical knowledge or expertise.

Why's that?