[organsnyder]

Use Discourse. It's not only the most advanced from a tech perspective, but it also aims to promote strong communities.

[eitland]

Am I the only one who is totally confused by discourse?

Maybe it's because rhe demo instance was reset way to often or something but I've never really seen a really working discourse instance. (I think both Mozilla and Canonical (has?) run one but they weren't to active either IIRC.

Anyone has examples of a working discourse community?

[flaviocopes]

- https://discourse.mozilla.org/latest

- https://platform.github.community/latest

- https://forum.golangbridge.org/

[eitland]

Thanks everyone. You've convinced me that discourse can work :-)

[organsnyder]

The subject matter may not appeal to some on HN, but here's an installation I set up at a previous employer over three years ago, that is thriving: https://discourse.biologos.org/

[eitland]

Heh, I've recognized that feeling too but I feel HN is still one of the most reasonable foras I know of.

[ravloony]

I think https://purescript-users.ml is running on Discourse. It's quite young though.

[dchuk]

No doubt that discourse is really nice software, and I will give it a go, but it does lack the “nostalgia” referred to by the original comment I replied to with this idea. All options are valid at this point though!

[varrock]

I am a huge fan of Simple Machine Forums

- https://www.simplemachines.org/