Hello everyone,
I am giving serious thought to replacing this current forum with a new and more modern set of software.
This forum runs on something called Community Server, and has gotten quite "long in the tooth". You might notice that it looks somewhat old, doesn't work well on phones, and spam is an increasing problem. What you _can't_ see is that behind the scenes fewer and fewer features are actually working at an admin level.
In other words, the current software is approaching any reasonable end of its life.
I don't yet know what I'll use to replace it, and if you have any suggestions of great/inexpensive forum hosting please let me know.
I _am_ considering using something called Discourse, which is a new open source forum project on GitHub. It looks like I can host it in Azure for a relatively small cost - hopefully low enough that the ads on the site will pay for the hosting.
I'm open to comments/thoughts/suggestions - this is your community as much as mine, and I value your input.