Another quick point of view I thought about after reading this topic: like most people, I frequent multiple forums with various engines.
It appeared to me that on a phpbb forum I frequent daily, two of the features that Discourse has and I miss the most are:
- The possibility to mention users. Sometimes, I read a post that could be interesting to someone else, or I’d like to invite someone to reply or say something and I have no other option than sending a private message to notify the person (which I never did, by the way…)
- The “like” feature. There is no other way to thank or acknowledge someone without having to write a message which will have no other purpose. Instead, I sometimes have sent private messages.