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I agreed. But I plan to run this forum on a shared hosting through, and I don't think it is possible.


Discourse can be self-hosted as well


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.


Hi guys. I just noticed that this post has a Reddit post on the front text. I originally made this post for Reddit actually, but I taught of hearing feedback here too, so I cross-posted it here. I forgot that the title of the text which is 'Reddit post' is also copied. If you guys have any recommendations or feedback for me, I would love to hear it. I sincerely apologise.


Same here.


Just curious, I has noticed that it is only possible to host it on their cloud, and doesn't have any autonomy to host the forum myself?


A link to this page is buried (nearly hidden) under all of their monthly cloud plans: https://invisioncommunity.com/buy/self-hosted/

So you can self host but they'd rather make recurring revenue from you.


Hi! Thanks for your comment. I also plan to create one myself, but I plan to deploy an existing forum software first, before moving on my own software. I want to use a hosted forums as it is easier to moderate, as well as hosted forum can give us some autonomy, without at the hands of big social media like Discord and Reddit, and we could made it to the benefit of the community based on what the community want.


Why not use an existing software?


Well making my own software would let me create my own features that I need, understand the codebase better and etc, and possibility create features that other software do not supported at the moment.


Hello everyone! I am an indie hacker and bootstrappers, but I always find it hard to have a relevant place where indie hackers and bootstrappers can find fellow peers with similar interests to hangout at.

So, I had created this Slack workplace, where everyone is welcome to have a chat and hangout at. I has created a few channels for everyone to chat in, and users could choose to contact each other privately through DMs if both parties are interested.

I decided to choose Slack over Discord, due to the toxic environment on the Discord platform, and lack of native integrations with other tools.

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