About 19 years I think
About 19 years I think, I've hosted a wonderful "community" forum, self-hosted. I'm still chugging along on the V4. The early years were super. Then things started changing, dropping/removal of features, but that happens in any growing product trying to improve. I saw the business model coming out years ago as the store with themes and mods was dropped. But to make this a review, I need to stick to the service. I gave 3 stars *Support was always great for me, *Reduction of available customization. *No longer a "community", more like a business. platform. **Affordability. When support for V4 ends, *Operational costs too high for just a forum. That's an important distinction, unless you have a customer base that can afford it. If you're looking for a business or organizational platform, that has plenty of funding it would be a nice platform. If you're a small town, individual with less than a over modest income, I'd look elsewhere. I haven't needed support in a good while, but if you don't pay the fee, you lose features that used to come with the forum. Recently announced that you will need to provide your on recatpcha. Unless you go to the cloud. Best of luck to them
By Ron W.