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[GreenWyvern]

It’s worth noting that @codinghorror, who is one of the developers of Discourse, asked on the SDMB for comments and opinions about what new forum software should look like, back in 2012:

Can we build better forum software?

As one of the oldest and most stable(ish) forum communities on the web, I’d like to solicit the feedback of the Straight Dope forum regulars. (if you’re curious, here’s what this forum looked like in the year 2000! Picture.) I think most forum software (read: phpBB and vBulletin) sucks, and is stuck in a late-90s design rut. To the extent that we have amazing ten (!) year old forum communities like the one at Straight Dope it is in spite of the forum software, which is uniformly terrible and h…