This might sound a little bit picky, but from a cursory look around the project, it feels a bit too corporate and platform-ey for my tastes. I'm only interested in two things: generating (ideally static, and seo-friendly) web pages out of a discord forum channel and selfhosting it so we can archive the data ourselves (and won't be bound to content policies of answeroverflow.com). All of the extra bells and whistles with the bot auto-managing channels, analytics, AI and whatever else superfluous and make me sweat a little, as I'll have to comb through the documentation to make sure everything is set up correctly. It's also really a shame to read that selfhosting will be a "Pro" feature. I'll give props for considering users wanting to opt-out, however, and it does at least seem rather simple to set up.
Where did you see self hosting is a pro feature? My bad if the website gives that impression. It will be free, the whole codebase is MIT licensed.
For all the extra bells and whistles, it’s mainly for people who are doing community support at scale who need it which would be paid customers - I do sort of need a way to support myself so I can buy groceries. The core of the product that matter is free and working well for indexing content so now the focus is “what else can we do to improve community support as a whole?”
As for self hosting, if you submit a PR for supporting it I’d be happy to get that merged but it’s not really a priority at the moment. The codebase is setup to be pretty easy to make a self hosted version though.
mid-kid|2 years ago
rhyssullivan1|2 years ago
For all the extra bells and whistles, it’s mainly for people who are doing community support at scale who need it which would be paid customers - I do sort of need a way to support myself so I can buy groceries. The core of the product that matter is free and working well for indexing content so now the focus is “what else can we do to improve community support as a whole?”
As for self hosting, if you submit a PR for supporting it I’d be happy to get that merged but it’s not really a priority at the moment. The codebase is setup to be pretty easy to make a self hosted version though.