Discourse Community Software

[Ravenfreak]

Has anyone used Discourse to power their community before? It's a modern platform that was written in Javascript as well as Ruby, and it uses quite a bit of resources so you can't run it on shared hosting. It is a pain to get set up if you're not familiar with using linux, but there's paid hosting if you don't want to go down the self hosting route. You'll be paying $50 a month for paid hosting for the smallest package. If you want to learn more about the platform, here's the link to their website:

Discourse is the place to build civilized communities

Discourse is modern forum software for your community. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!

www.discourse.org

Websites such as the official Unreal Engine community uses this platform btw.

 

[Nomad]

I have heard of this software but never looked into it. Does the price include cloud hosting fees as well as software subscription fees? I think $50 per month for community software is a huge cost. It would be better to use Xenforo or even open source, instead.