If they can come out with a fairly steady stream of new designs and afford the consultants that recommended a change of forum software then their business model is obviously generating revenue from somewhere.
IIRC they did not use consultants to decide the software.
They did however ASK FOR OPINIONS on the choice of software.
That consultation did not generate much response so nobody can ever say they were not consulted. Forum software open discussion and suggestions feature requests.
They did however hire a discourse team to help with the ACTUAL migration and that team has gone above and beyond to try cover as many issues as possible.
Other real issues and even some aesthetics are still on thier To-Do list.
New issues I am sure will come up and where they are VALID and I am sure they will do thier utmost to look at them.
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I think you do. 
there are two ways to "reply"
- either it's a general reply to the thread and you click the greenish button at the very end of the thread
- or you click on the greyish Reply button, possibly after selecting some text in the specific message and this way you quote someone and clearly show the intent is to answer to that. person.
both have a role to play. I guess I don't get it either.
Looks like a couple of characters are missing... ??
- The list of "Suggested Topics" is useless: it always shows the same five topics, and only those that I've seen before.
- The edit box has no buttons for <strike>, <underline>, <pre>, <tt>, align left/center/right, subscript, superscript.
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I don't find suggested topics useless - it changes if I read one and it's a handy list of topics where something has happened, unlike the main page after you've been looking for a while.
And creating yet another item in your browser's history, making that practically unusable as well.
Yes this is missing from the UI, of course you can enter some of the tags yourself
Ignore this- this text is underlined
- a 32 bit unsigned long has 232 possible values
- you can use the analog pins A0 or A1
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this is pre text
that's another form of pre-formatted text
I'm unsure about text alignment.
Of course, but that's not the point, is it? The UI should have these buttons. Period.
Text alignment is not possible, at least not using HTML. It would require a center, p or div tag to be inserted, and the software does not allow that. Or any other tag. 
The speed is not a showstopper, the tech used is.
My AthlonXP 3000+ lacks SSE2 support, and nearly all compilers targeting win32 seem to use it by default, unless the dev remembers to switch that flag off.
I used to play Diablo on my 386DX, where you can actually see the screen being redrawn - i can live with slow.
Problem is when a program refuses to start at all.
agreed, but as it's not there today, I have now keyboard shortcuts to enter them...
Did you notice how the dots after "replying" are jumping up and down while someone is typing a reply? Don't you just love it?
They wrote a considerable amount of code to achieve that:
And I blocked it. Because it's useless, childish and annoying:
body.archetype-regular span.wave {display:none!important;}(sorry, can't resist 
)
... maybe is for this, that they ended on this mess ... 
@ Etemenanki
What did you recommend when asked ?
This is true. However, @MarkMLI missed another very important part of what Arduino's success is based on: an amazing community of people making valuable non-monetary contributions to the Arduino project.
Purchases of official products are very important because they allow Arduino to pay a team of skilled developers to work full time on the software that we all benefit from so much, whether or not we ever buy an official board. But the people writing libraries/sketches/boards platforms/tutorials/etc.,
and providing support all day every day here on the forum and elsewhere are also essential parts of the Arduino project. In this respect you make a very significant contribution regardless of how many boards you've bought.
By integrating these chips into the IDE, then the Arduino world gets bigger. It may not directly return on the investment by Arduino, but it does grow the brand.
Can't say one on-the-fly ... if i had to do that, before to give suggestions, i personally may have checked some of the more efficent, professionals and followed technical forums, and made a decision after tried them basing my words on functionality and easyness of use for technical help and discussions (cause, after all, this is supposed to be a technical forum 
)...
But i can say you one thing for sure, at 101% i will NEVER EVER suggested a disfunctional mess like asocial-networks bad copies (faceugly and similar ones) ... never, even if you paid me for do that. And this IS a disfunctional mess like a bad copy of faceugly.
-> UKHeliBob: and, look, i'm still not saying that all the things that are here are bad, after all it solved some of the non-working things we had on the old forum ... is just that it now don't even LOOK as something technical nor professional ...
Yes, sorry. I tried using the old convention of Ctrl, Home and End bracketed in chevrons, and they were obviously misinterpreted and swallowed.
Hence Ctrl-F for searching, Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End for moving unambiguously to the top or bottom of a document and so on.
SMF- at least on other foramina where I encounter it- has the interesting behaviour of reproducing markup it doesn't understand verbatim.
MarkMLl