To be fair; I tried migrating a population from Invision Power Board (IPB) to Discourse over 10 years ago and it did not work. The discourse software was sleek

To be fair; I tried migrating a population from Invision Power Board (IPB) to Discourse over 10 years ago and it did not work. The discourse software was sleek enough, speedy enough etc; but it was too far a disconnect from how forums of yore worked. Discourse is much better suited for QnA over Discussions where each comment has equal merit; there was also an emphasis on 'personality' with older forum technology which promoted some kitsch graphics design and made people cultivate a persona (which became a reason to put more effort into replies to things). I'm not sure if I can correctly articulate what I mean, but, just be aware: Here may be dragons.