There are lots of phpBB forums, and their <i>content</i> is many times invaluable. The application itself though, is completely terrible. It&#x27;s not that the information isn&#x27;t there, it&#x27;s the <i>finding</i> that sucks. For example: basic things like having the search index work properly with unicode. The chances that the php, db and app settings are all properly set up for searching for &quot;ö&quot; are slim to none.<p>I don&#x27;t agree with all the design decisions of Discourse, but it was (seemingly) designed to be a straightforward migration from phpBB and other similar forums (flat ones). Just having a proper search alone is worth the migration.