Kunena keeps failing me/A pitch for Discourse

Hi all. I'd like to pitch the idea of migrating this forum to the Discourse forum software (not to be confused with Discord, the live chat software/platform). I find this forum to be slow and clunky, and I have to be very careful when replying to topics to be sure to copy my post before submitting, because there's a good chance Kunena will encounter an error and discard my writing.

Discourse is one of the most popular and modern forum applications out there. It's used by large open-source projects, like Swift, LLVM, Gnome, and many others. It is open-source, and free if you host it yourself. They also offer paid hosted services, and even offer a free hosted Discourse for "popular" open source projects that I think LinuxCNC would qualify for, but unfortunately does not support importing this old forum. However, there is a way to migrate this forum into a self-hosted or paid instance.

IMO its greatest strength is that it uses supports Markdown in posts, making it ideal for a forum such as ours where we’re routinely posting snippets of code and configuration files. It also has a good, free mobile app. And it’s very fluent to use. The UI is responsive and uncluttered.

I would be willing to take on the effort of trialing hosting this forum and migrating the old posts and users, but I would need read-only access to the Kunena DB, attachments, and configuration files. I’ll pay for the VM while I work on this. I figure I run through the import, work out the kinks, let a few people try the new forum, and then we do it all again for real, if we decide we like it.

Thoughts?

Wow, here's an example. I made a small edit to the title, and Kunena completely destroyed the links in my original post. Editing it now to try to fix it.

And after fixing the links, it removed the lines between paragraphs. When I go to edit it again, it destroys the links again.

I thought this was again one of those "we should do Discord" kind of thing.
Thank you for not doing that.
Discord has one single aim=selling user info, and they plaster that all over the front page of the parent company.
As for Kunena, i can live with it, i just click on "source" first, then do stuff manually with code and colors and stuff. Who knew HTML will come handy!

Sure you can live with it, but there really are far superior alternatives out there, aren't they worth a look?

If we can get rid of the rubbish editor we currently have then I am all for it.