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Forums are almost irreplaceable. You can’t replace a product support forum or a sports team fan forum with something tangential but completely different like a discord, Facebook page or similar.

Discourse is so great these days that it should be the default choice for anyone needing a forum, and luckily it seems it is too.

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yes it is, I saw it emerge left and right and welcomed the resurgence. Though I prefer tree thread representation I can understand the advantage to simplify to linear. I'd love for some classic "bb"-style forums to migrate, skip the extensive userinfo, skip the usersigs (but continuing to use the old urls of course), it would bring them new users.

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