People at the start of the Discourse were quite silly, were they not? For example, there used to be a ton of people not used to how the Discourse works, and some of them just couldn’t stand it. But I find that I can’t stand traditional forums much anymore. I’ve almost completely forgotten the BBcode I used to know, and… Also Discourse beats forums because Markdown + HTML + BBcode > BBcode…
I don’t know. I feel traditional forums kind of force you to stay on topic, but Discourse allows you to just have fun around the whole site… even in Meta or Bug Reports.