From 4dd2c86ccaa50fd84fb42bf27177f859668f941f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anmol Sethi <hi@nhooyr.io>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 10:11:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] FAQ: Demonstrate how to switch the marketplace

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 doc/FAQ.md | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/FAQ.md b/doc/FAQ.md
index 3d7727fbb..bbc2ad6a8 100644
--- a/doc/FAQ.md
+++ b/doc/FAQ.md
@@ -86,9 +86,20 @@ If you have your own marketplace that implements the VS Code Extension Gallery A
 point code-server to it by setting `$SERVICE_URL` and `$ITEM_URL`. These correspond directly
 to `serviceUrl` and `itemUrl` in VS Code's `product.json`.
 
+e.g. to use [open-vsx.org](https://open-vsx.org):
+
+```bash
+export SERVICE_URL=https://open-vsx.org/vscode/gallery
+export ITEM_URL=https://open-vsx.org/vscode/item
+```
+
 While you can technically use Microsoft's marketplace with these, please do not do so as it
-is against their terms of use. See [above](#differences-compared-to-vs-code). These variables
-are most valuable to our enterprise customers for whom we have a self hosted marketplace product.
+is against their terms of use. See [above](#differences-compared-to-vs-code) and this
+discussion regarding the use of the Microsoft URLs in forks:
+
+https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/31168#issue-244533026
+
+These variables are most valuable to our enterprise customers for whom we have a self hosted marketplace product.
 
 ## Where are extensions stored?