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<p>This is a screenshot of the back-and-forth I had with Discourse developers and co-founder Jeff Atwood in a topic I created to request information about Discoure&#039;s support for using the PURGE method for downstream reverse proxies like varnish cache. Th...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This is a screenshot of the back-and-forth I had with Discourse developers and co-founder Jeff Atwood in a topic I created to request information about Discoure&#039;s support for using the PURGE method for downstream reverse proxies like varnish cache.<br /> <br /> There was very little information about it, so I used this topic to document my configuration for others in the community. I got attacked, and the Discourse staff ultimately deleted the entire topic, making it clear that they intentionally don&#039;t provide or permit their product to be documented--another regrettably common instance of intentionally making their product hard to use in a [[Strategic Open Source]] project as a means to generate revenue.<br /> <br /> To see the full topic before it was deleted, see [[File:202005_discourseStrategicOpenSource_PURGEtopic_full.gif]] and [[File:202005_discourseStrategicOpenSource_PURGEtopic_full.pdf]</div>

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