I’ve also grown into enjoying my interactions with Discourse since I tried it about 18 months ago. I moved my own little community (8000-ish users with 700,000 posts) to it earlier this year and I’ve enjoyed the the experience. I think most the users have too.
I’d give an extra like for the VAX/VMS reference if I could. I recenly re-discovered some VMS source code on microfiche in my ‘archive’. I think it’s v3 so I think dates back to about 1982. I don’t have access to a fiche reader though so it’s not much use now.