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You have shared a discord link. Does it allow publicly accessible links now? I was shown a login/signup screen.

The invite link is in the blog post. Assuming anyone can go to it after joining.

In the example I just hard code the env variables to demonstrate, but you’d want them in secrets after testing it out.

In case you are unaware, it's considered poor etiquette to share links to login-walled social networks, and something like Discord that forces you to join a chatroom with unknown implications (it may trigger a message drawing attention to you, it may require account verification, it may require manual action from a moderator, etc.) just to access some information, all that on top of requiring an account to view anything, is far worse. You can easily share information through one of the countless Pastebin clones out there.

I only did it because they’re requiring anyone who wants to launch their own self hosted install, to join this exact discord and fill out an application form….

So anyone who wants to run this, has to join that discord anyway. You can find it in the blog post.

I see, I thought that was their support platform for people who can't figure it out from their docs and GitHub. There goes my plan to try out self-hosting.

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