GDPR and anonymizing personal data

No:

Anonymizing the user (which includes removing all identifying structured data like IP addresses and such) should be sufficient. If the user has posted information that could lead to their identity in a forum discussion, it is up to the moderator or admin to decide if they are willing to remove those.

Not necessarily, it depends on what license the forum owner has decided to choose.
If the default Discourse ToS have not been changed, then it is CC.

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