Thank you for your condensed feedback.
That’s what we’re working on. Maybe it is hard for us sit in both chairs, aiming to satisfy any category of viewers & balancing the content quality, which is a very complex thing, despite it may not look so from the outside. Anyway we’re continuing working on project and have enormous plans for future development too. 5 years is not a joke for us, we got so much expertise while keeping leading positions. We are doing our best to use the experience we have to build a much stable yet growing in profit set of projects. In the end, it’s the subscribers we are grateful for these opportunities.
I personally get you. I love classic layout better, but the more I use Discourse, the more fluid it becomes to me. Give it a time and you will find it a as convenient as classic forums. We considered all popular solutions for forum boards, yet Discourse checked all the most important points. We will help them by improving this open-source software with their community.