While #discord is the topic de jour (well, d'hier probably with how fast things move) and people are talking about moving to forums (yay!), can someone explain to me how Discourse became the primary #forum for so many sites? I see it all over for software sites (Signal uses it for their community, for example).

I just find it... very non-intuitive to use and confusing to look at. If the old school BB style didn't agree with you, themes exist? Or was it just hatred of PHP that caused the move?

Honestly, not sure what it is that I don't like, but I've always felt lost on a Discourse forum in a way I never did on a phpBB or Simple Machines forum.

Maybe I'm just old-man-yells-at-clouds.gif 🤷