# Let's get Humancrafted going! **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Created:** [September 25, 2026, 3:31pm UTC](https://humancrafted.discourse.group/t/lets-get-humancrafted-going/12 "2026-09-25T15:31:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![brett](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex039/user_avatar/humancrafted.discourse.group/brett/32/7_2.png) [@brett](https://humancrafted.discourse.group/u/brett)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://humancrafted.discourse.group/t/lets-get-humancrafted-going/12/7 "2026-09-28T13:33:19Z")
Ryan on Mastodon asked a question about the forum software currently powering this site that I want to bring up in this topic: > **[Ryan (@fullywoolly@mastodon.social)](https://mastodon.social/@fullywoolly/117344920734842229)** > > @brettcodes hosted on a service that uses AI and offers an AI product? The post says: > hosted on a service [Discourse] that uses AI and offers an AI product? * * * I turned off the Discourse AI features when I set up this forum. And the fact that the hosting is free and the software is open source is appealing. I don’t have the money right now to pay for hosting the forum in perpetuity (but maybe there’s some way we could crowd-funding it or some other option!). But what Ryan says is true, Discourse has AI features and is seemingly developed with AI too from looking at the [discourse/AI-AGENTS.md at 3b6713ef7768d10cee4f11d033e37f66a1ccad5c · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/3b6713ef7768d10cee4f11d033e37f66a1ccad5c/AI-AGENTS.md) present in the sourcetree. What do others think about this? Is it a problem such that we should evaluate alternatives/migrating away from Discourse? What alternatives exist that are robust, mature, easy to host, and reasonable in terms of cost to host? --- _[View the full topic](https://humancrafted.discourse.group/t/lets-get-humancrafted-going/12)._