https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/
I enjoyed reading this article and also the comments at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755731
Even some praise in there at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48756675
As am exploring BSD these days, I am in FreeBSD forums and unitedbsd.com - lurking. And UnitedBSD uses flarum.org which I think is the best forum software available as of now. Definitely better than Discourse.
