This site’s program uses so much memory—wow, I’m giving up

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Originally, I just wanted to set up a forum for fun, but it uses so much memory—the minimum requirement is 2GB of RAM. Then I went to the official site to apply for a free forum, and seriously, as soon as I posted something with a link, I got banned. How am I supposed to play like this? Might as well set one up myself.

But even for the installation, the minimum environment requires 2GB of RAM. I figured if I actually got it running, it would probably lag like crazy.
The requirements are just way too high—there are a lot of hurdles, and if you have low RAM or a small CPU, it’s just not gonna work. It’s a real resource hog, so I gave up.

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Just use AI to write one yourself—keep only the core, and make everything else modular with plugins.

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Just tinkering around when there’s nothing to do—2GB of RAM is still pretty decent.

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Even with my local i9 and 32GB DDR4 memory, it takes five minutes to start Discourse in Docker—so imagine how long it’ll take for you…

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A lightweight recommendation: Flarum

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The problem is, flarum is both ugly and hard to use.

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Gas station attendant

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Come use my Discoure-PHP
:face_savoring_food:

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self-hosted

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Flarum isn’t ugly either.

The community has tons of themes.

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Of course, the forum uses up memory :ac01:

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You can tell at a glance that you’re a big foodie.

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Discourse is too complicated. Better use my forumlify (

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Come use the forumlify made by me and @lezi-fun.

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Okay