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This remains one of the hardest subjects that concerns this community. The failure to deliver the new forum software, while no longer a hot topic after all these years, surely deserves a revisit to these old questions.
Couldn't this question have been asked in a thread dealing with this topic?
No matter how much it seems to some that the community is disappointed (or not), the fact is that we cannot regret what we never had, and that the money that was invested was (and remains) the money of the forum, which is fundamentally private and centralized.
Forums (as already written) are increasingly becoming a thing of the past, because today's kids are already learning that it is completely normal to communicate with AI rather than with real people. Some new look of the forum with new features would therefore most likely not change anything.