[Solvency]

Everyone here ignores Discourse because it's not "cool". Some might complain about its UX issues. Yet those same people are tolerating the mountain of issues with Lemmy or Mastodon because they are approaching "cool" status.

[Zak]

I think people are more tolerant of issues with Lemmy and Mastodon because federation is a major benefit that inherently adds some UX complexity.

I think Discourse is fine for what it is, but it's less OK to be a siloed forum in 2023 than it was in 2013. Yes, I'm aware federated forums are just reinventing Usenet, but there was a good idea there we lost sight of in the web era.