[@neon67 Participant 5 years, 9 months ago]

Good idea for Christmas! 2 years ago we switched to bbpress from Drupal – and we are still happy. It has become much easier to work – everything is easily scalable and customizable. The forum at the heart of our site – https://imhodom.ru/.
Now we have an editor-in-chief, not a tired programmer) There is no such service that would not be in WordPress, and some ideas were suggested to us by plugin authors.

Special thanks to @johnjamesjacoby and @robin-w – success and good luck the New year!