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Re:Ask HN: Is there any simple, clean and well-designed foru... by brudgers on Monday January 26, 2015 @08:43PM (#8950835)
Jeff Atwood created Discus. The poster is explicitly looking for alternatives.
Re:Ask HN: Is there any simple, clean and well-designed foru... by c2prods on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @12:06PM (#8954216)
I quite like discuss but I need a better user management…
Re:Ask HN: Is there any simple, clean and well-designed foru... by brudgers on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @02:58PM (#8955335)
What user management tasks do you anticipate?

What I've gleaned from listening to the StackOverflow/StackExchange podcasts is: If you can a build a community, community members will be inclined toward handling a lot of user management as part of their engagement in it.

There's also the implication that if you're not trying to build that sort of community, it's unlikely to be successful.