Would you recommend self-hosted or managed? I started fucking around with self-hosted a while back but the transactional email setup was a fairly large annoyance (for me personally).
I’m totally open to going the easy automated route. I just don’t know what the best/most transparent way of funding the site is since that would probably end up being a $100-300/mo.
It seems like the easiest way though.
I’m currently looking into the Digital Ocean route, as I can just pay for it myself each month if it isn’t a crazy amount.
Do we have an idea for this? I wanted to call it Asunderground but the .com wasn’t available and I thought the oldies wouldn’t know how to get there. I bought wildeachit.com instead and had it forward to wildeachit.lol with the intent of setting the forum up on subdomain i so it would ultimately be i.wildeachit.lol - yes I’m a faggot
Yeah, I setup an email and mail gun account but just didn’t have the time to take it farther than that. I’m writing this from my kids play pen right now
Link it directly to a payment gateway and let people donate.
Or let user subscribe:
Wordpress has endless fully-featured options for donations that show how much you need for the month and how much you’ve raised toward that goal but the pickens seem slim for discourse/static sites. Maybe someone here knows of something. I’ll keep digging though.
@HiroProtagonist if we want to use the wildeachit domain I already created an admin email and mailgun account. I can send you the credentials to connect it to a DO droplet and then we should be able to migrate everything from here over fairly seamlessly? Then we can setup PayPal’s and other OG related shit under the admin emails. What do you think @Onikage ?
I’m thinking the OG can sustain the cost of a DO/Mailgun combo but I fear donations will fall off and we won’t be able to recoup the monthly cost on a managed discourse. I could be wrong though.
Ok great. Let me know if you need help. I have no experiance with discourse but have setup hosted forums in the past. Those hosted discourse prices seem insane. For 300 a month you could rent a monster server.