I put a lot of thought on this. Initially I wanted only to send a PM to Jon but I then think that others could back me up.
So, here are some of my reasons why Discourse would be a more appropriate forum platform for a software product (be it Sublime or anything else)
[size=150]Setup & administration[/size]
- Initial set-up it takes 30 mins tops (on a Digital Ocean instance; on a different server things may vary a bit). This includes setting up new accounts for DO, Mandril (for sending mails), Amazon S3 (this is optional) and actual set up of the forum, but doesn’t include migration of the existing phpBB. For auth with Github/Facebook/Google/Whatever, add 5 mins for each. This is one-time task and most likely the whole forum will fit just fine on a $10/mo instance (don’t have time for that? you can pay $100 once and Discourse team will install it for you);
- Maintenance is taking about 2-3 minutes/day (or week, or how often you’d like the forum updated to the latest version). Don’t have time for this maintenance? You can actually buy Discourse as a service
[size=150]Features[/size]
Oh my! I don’t even know where to start here!
- Jon, remember the day of your comeback this year when you asked what features we would like? Instead of having 200 replies that basically said the same thing, users could simply vote for their favorite request. Next, you can simply see which feature is the most requested (you could also ditch that userecho thing);
- When an user ask for a question then another user comes after a month and find that question, instead of replying „yeah, me too!”, he could simply vote up;
- When an user receive a good response for a problem, instead of sending a „yeah, thanks, great” he could just vote up;
- Users can receive notification. Forum wide and on email;
- Users could mention each other (and receive notifications);
- Markdown!
- Users could attach images by simply drag & drop
- Working code highlight (other than faceless, who does some kind of dark magic, all code embeds looks bad)
- No more pagination for long threads, users will simply scroll
- The community could auto-moderate itself (if a reply gets more than X flags it will be automagically gone)
Plus a lot of other small & cool stuff.
[size=150]Other stuff[/size]
meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-wr … phpbb/3763
meta.discourse.org/t/is-migrati … idea/15668
So, please, do migrate!