[mmcclure]

I'd be curious to hear more about where you see the rough edges are around Discourse deployment, particularly for a simple use-case. I kicked off a single-node Discourse installation a few years ago and it's happily run ever since with just an occasional machine resize. The community that installation supports isn't _that_ trivial, imo, and consistently hits 5 figure monthly actives (a lot of whom are very, very active).

My experience overall has been that, for a project supported by a company that wants you to pay them to run the software, it's almost _too_ easy to run. One click upgrades in the client, generally fantastic documentation and resources for when you need to go deeper, and a really solid story (albeit time consuming) for the situation when you need to transition from the one-click-style installation to multi-node. Personally I've found Discourse to be so simple to install and relatively painless to manage over the years that I'd honestly be shocked to find something better in that regard.