tfh wrote
Discourse looks really nice, but I really don't like it's lay-out and the way topic are presented and older topics "disappear" unless you do some endless scrolling.
Yeah, that's a good point. I also don't think it can be self hosted and they require you to pay a huge monthly fee. I asked a friend and he said
Flarum might be a good option.
I can't find any examples of forums with it, but from some images I've seen of it, it looks similar to Discourse, but each topic section is more clearly defined, plus it's free and open source. I might look further into it.