It’s good to hear that it solved your problem.
I guess you must find all the other community forums centered around deeply technical topics disappointing as well. None of this was off-topic - comments were made and they were discussed in context.
And no one forced you to read them.
And you have benefited from the sharing culture which we endeavour to encourage, which ironically, is exactly what the “off-topic” parts of the discussion were about.
If we hadn’t, the next free solution running on free software interacting with free servers that you need may not be published, ready for you to consume on demand.