Discourse is heavier as a forum, certainly, but it supports embedding in sites as a comment section, and will generally do useful things like "automatically cre

Discourse is heavier as a forum, certainly, but it supports embedding in sites as a comment section, and will generally do useful things like "automatically create a new topic of discussion from the post." I agree that it's exceedingly heavy for comment only use (and generally requires user accounts), but if you're trying to build a community that also has blog posts, the two do integrate very nicely.