MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for discourse [2]: Broken, abandoned, seemingly unused web application backend from 2021.
Upstream only supports Docker setups officially, and it is the recommended way to manage this application or using it for development. [a][b] As of now, it also requires PostgreSQL v13 [b] and not v16 that is available in Arch extra repo. [a]: https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-for-development-using- docker/102009 [b]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL.md [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/discourse/