Hi @freemo , a small question for when you have time: how did you find discourse so far, in terms of maintenace?

I managed a phpbb community, I'd just like something where I do not have to mess with the code, and I do not have to put the whole community in standby when there is an update as some plugin will likely break.
Is it giving you many headaches, so far?

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@arteteco Thats a bit loaded, depends on your setup. **if** you follow **exactly** the way they tell you to install it then it likely works. That means baremetal, always up, no load balancing or redundancy, no enterprise level features.

I on the other hand hacked it to run in a docker container and be load balanced. This was a **huge** effort and compounded by the fact that the support community is very hostile to any other install processes, so you will not get help.

Also their support communitya nd community as a whole is very for-profit oriented. So it is in their best interest not to help you beyond the standard install route. When i went there asking for basic advice I basically got a response along the lines of "This is an unsupported install, but if you pay me 100$ an hour I can fix your problem, otherwise take your problem elsewhere"

With that said once I got it up and running the maintenance is a breeze, but that is in large part due to my own hacks as writing services that run through containers instead of bare metal is by its very nature much easier to maintain.

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