@ed709062 I agree that the posts you're complaining about were silly and wrong.

Someone developing forum software for a few thousand users, though, can be totally wrong on what is like to develop for hundreds of millions of users and still be doing a good job on their own work.

My experience using the ForumMagnum deployments as an end user has generally been pretty good. 

 @ed709062 I think its biggest downside is that it's not designed for simplicity and low maintenance 

 @ed709062 what about https://github.com/LessWrong2/ForumMagnum ?