# Great forum soft

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-forum-soft/42670
**Category:** Praise
**Created:** [April 16, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-forum-soft/42670 "2016-04-16T21:07:41Z")
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### Author: ![jesus2099](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jesus2099/32/119720_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-forum-soft/42670/1 "2016-04-16T21:07:41Z")

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I had been using a [PunBB MusicBrainz forum](http://forums.musicbrainz.org) for many years and when the [Discourse MetaBrainz forum](http://community.metabrainz.org) replaced it, I was very sceptical.  
It looked overly _modern_ to my taste. Too much white colour all over the place.

But I was surprised that for a modern forum, it worked very very well in my good old Opera 12 and in a matter of a couple of days I was completely convinced and I find it very handy to use!

And I have always loved Markdown syntax but none of the forums I was on was using it before Discourse. It is a pleasure to use.

Most of all, it works so very well in a multitude of platforms for such a complex layout.  
It must be very hard to maintain, or what?

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2016, 9:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-forum-soft/42670/2 "2016-04-17T09:06:43Z")

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> [@jesus2099](#):
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> it worked very very well in my good old Opera 12

May I ask why are you still using Opera 12 (which came out in 2011)?

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### Author: ![jesus2099](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jesus2099/32/119720_2.png) [@jesus2099](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jesus2099)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2016, 10:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/great-forum-soft/42670/3 "2016-04-17T10:07:23Z")

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> [@zogstrip](#):
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> > [@jesus2099](#):
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> > it worked very very well in my good old Opera 12
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> May I ask why are you still using Opera 12 (which came out in 2011)?

Good question! 🙂  
Because [Opera 12](http://miaou.ions.fr/en/opera12.html) has many features that I unfortunately could not find available in Firefox, Chromium nor in the new Opera.