&gt; a phpBB forum, meaning I won&#x27;t find what I&#x27;m looking for anyway.<p>I&#x27;ll have to disagree on this point.  There are a <i>lot</i> of phpBB forums out there, and their quality and content varies widely as the Internet itself.  Many of them, esp. some of the long-established ones, are invaluable sources for all sorts of arcana.  Wikipedia doesn&#x27;t even begin to touch the kinds of obscure practical knowledge embedded in the &quot;dark web&quot; of phpBB forums.  There are a lot of Google searches for which a single post by some domain expert is the top result, many of which in old, old forum software of some sort, usually phpBB.<p>FWIW, I&#x27;ve never once run into a Discourse forum in the wild, i.e. via a web search, site link, etc.