Kunena keeps failing me/A pitch for Discourse

As far as I know, this forum is maintained and run on a voluntary basis. Which means donated.
For which I'm grateful.
There are other groups in chat forums and and there is a mailing list as well. Each of those have their user base and their particular ways to use it.
Sure the editor in this particular forum is buggy, everyone agrees, as for most other features or lack thereof it's a question of personal preference.
As in every group of volunteers there is no shortage of suggestions and lobbying to change this or that but when it comes down to do the heavy lifting the ranks often evaporate into thin air.

So, out of all those posting users, who actually has the knowhow required, who is going to sit down and donate the time and effort to set it up and who is prepared to do the maintenance in the long run?

As for Windows vs Linux, that discussion is rather pointless because in linux it is the distribution and desktop environment that gives the operating system it's look and feel. Just for file managing alone there are several choices.
Building a real time machine controller with a PC is not exactly the most trivial activity and if you tried to do that on a windows based operating system then I'm not so sure you would still like it quite so much.

@Aciera, thank you for your answer. I like it very much.

Yes you're right and I've hinted in that direction, it's work no matter what forum software, any power works.

And the volunteers are getting less and less when it comes to doing something for a long time

About WIN vs Linux, yes that's right, everything has its advantages and disadvantages I'm a classic user for spreadsheets, writing letters, creating presentations and email and preferably so I can share it with clients or they can edit it.
I have never used a real-time system and that is why I chose Linux .

I realise that this is not what is wanted, but why doesn't the forum partly finance itself?
Financing options would be advertising (yes, I don't like that either) or a sponsor who is permanently named in the forum in return.

Has such a possibility ever been considered?
So you could put together a mini-group for the forum (admin/maintenance) who would receive this advertising revenue as an expense allowance.

Yes, I personally also find it very good that there is no advertising in the forum.

Muecke wrote:

@Aciera, thank you for your answer. I like it very much.

+1

A lot in the linux world works on a voluntary donation system. No idea how well that works but generally speaking once money is involved things need to be a lot more organized, accounts need to be run, there have to be structures that oversee the use of the donations because these kinds of situations can also attract people for all the wrong reasons. Does somebody in country A get paid the same as somebody in country B, what kind of contribution gets paid and what does not.
At the end of the day users are free to set up new support platforms in whatever form and time will tell if they can attract enough users to keep going.

Oh yes, you're right, I haven't thought about that yet, which also clearly shows that I've never had to deal with something like that before.