I used to love forums. The phpbb are ones are very ugly imo tho, but I'm used to good designs like from LSX or NBB. 

The topics of your forum are not really for me, so I'm out.

But I absolutely agree on that forums should come back. The centralization of Reddit and stuff is so annoying, I just can't get warm with the Reddit crowd tbh.
Each niche their own forum would be best imo


And a client that supports the login for each forum so that you can aggregate all threads and then just post in them.