Hi! Thanks for your comment. I also plan to create one myself, but I plan to deploy an existing forum software first, before moving on my own software. I want to use a hosted forums as it is easier to moderate, as well as hosted forum can give us some autonomy, without at the hands of big social media like Discord and Reddit, and we could made it to the benefit of the community based on what the community want.

Why not use an existing software?

Well making my own software would let me create my own features that I need, understand the codebase better and etc, and possibility create features that other software do not supported at the moment.

As someone who makes his money from hosting “forums”, I can NOT confirm that forums are dead. Maybe the classical ones, but not places like HN, where the content is interesting and peoples opinions are appreciated.