I have never read forum analysis as good as this one. When you have pointed out the major issues with the software, and I do not have any reasons to disagree, I will add one more point, forums do not have search friendly content. If you search online, do you see any forum topics appearing on the search results? Game is a popular niche for forums, how many times do you see forum topics appear on search results when you search for game related topic. However, you might see Reddit and Quora frequently appear on search results page. We need to create topics that will get ranked on search engines.