Is the forum software falling apart?

Yesterday I posted a note about the stuck communications counter, which happened again, but this post was nowhere to be found and still has not appeared anywhere. And apparently, others make the same experiences. Seems like there are some problems with the internal forum notification system.
I think some confirmation or note from the forum administration whether or not this is a known issue would be necessary.

Dude        ! wrote:
Maybe what the forum management needs is someone in charge with an IT management background understanding the needs of IT professionals when exchanging information. My impression so far is that the people in charge of this forum are some sort of social media analysts, perhaps playing around with Facebook and Twitter all day long. I mean, nothing personal, but the forum software priorities and quality acceptance hardly meets the current community expectation of what the software should do or even how it works or looks like. And it does not even play nicely with any of the new-age computer devices.
Good point.  I was looking at the installation docs for Jive yesterday, and the thought occurred to me ... how many forum admins (perhaps, "especially Jive based forums") have, by the very nature of the forum subject, a community that is capable of reading and understanding the documentation of the forum software?  Who are professionally equipped to do the admins job themselves?  In other words, who are quite capable (and willing?) to back-check and fact-check claims about the capabilities of the forum software ...
As I move about other technical support forums, I seem to see a lot more of whatever is used by forums.virtualbox.org, www.unix.com, etc.  Just good, basic forum software.  Nothing fancy, and certainly no attempt at being "social media".   At this point, I think a case could be made for throwing out the idea of 'backward compatibility'.  Just archive the current content, and move to a more appropriate platform with a link to the archives.

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