Thanks for this list. Would it be fair to assume that the listed ‘Existing plugins’ continue to be stable and work well in latest versions of Discourse ? Do the plugins have some standard notion of “quality” against versions of discourse ?
Also in the last 5 years, have any newer plugins been added that might help bring Discourse even closer to SO in terms of user-experience and look-n-feel ?
Then, is there a way that the “+ New Topic” button could be changed to say “+ Ask New Question” ?
And it is a default Discourse behaviour (out-of-the-box) to do some intelligent search based on partial or full text of the question entered to see if similar question already exists or not, and check with poster if those questions answer their question already ?