@uwe.krien wrote in one of the email threads “if other users feel bothered by the way oemof uses the forum we should move away because this shouldn’t be a reason to create bad mood”. As far as I know there is no “bad mood” and the way oemof is using the forum for model-specific questions is explicitly within the original scope written by @brynpickering when the Q&A was set up a year ago. It’s just that no other models have joined oemof in using the forum in this way, which reduces the benefit of multi-model Q&A. Maybe we should just let the experiment run for another year and see if any other models join.
Also, if any model chooses to set up their own forum based on discourse, I am happy to offer advice - you can follow the setup description, except I’d caution against using SparkPost, since they seem to be blacklisted by some mail providers (around 10% of mails from the forum to users bounce). renewables.ninja uses mailgun, which may have a lower bounce rate.