Hi Max,

re:
> Few days ago I found a good forum engine: https://discuss.flarum.org/
> In my opinion it could be a best engine for a next generation MoI community forum.
> If Michael will implement a tag system to this forum, it will be great.

Some previous discussion on that here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7573.1

It looks pretty promising!

A few difficulties though - it specifically says it's in beta release and not to use it in production ( http://flarum.org/docs/installation/ "Don’t use it in production." ) and it does not currently support IIS so I'd need to spend a lot of time fiddling around with setting up a new web server.

Then there would be a big issue about data migration, this current forum has 8294 threads in it containing a lot of information, it would not be good to lose all this information and so I'd probably have to do more work yet to port over everything.

So that's a lot of work involved and I tend to like things that take a lot of work to also provide a lot of benefit. The problem is that the benefit would be relatively small because the current forum is already very effective and easy to use.

There are probably things that would not be known until it's up and running like are spammers attracted by it?

I think it's more likely that I'd try to tune up the current forum some more before considering such a switch.

If MoI was just being released for the first time right now that would probably make things different.

- Michael