Not gone at all! There are a bunch of companies working on the current generation of forums. Discourse need not be the "golden child", the other ones are pushi

Not gone at all! There are a bunch of companies working on the current generation of forums. Discourse need not be the "golden child", the other ones are pushing the envelope of what makes a good community. Discourse often steals the good ideas from the other forums actually :) e.g. NodeBB (https://NodeBB.org https://NodeBB.org), Flarum, and Vanilla are three in the space. (Admittedly, I maintain NodeBB, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt)