I hated the Google Groups forums and never used them because, well Google.
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Glad you’re happy 
I also did not participate much for a similar reason. Hopefully the Qubes community will now be able to extend to a wider audience of its users with this. That’s what I’m hoping at least.
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It was possible to reply without a Google account - any email account worked, However sometimes replies wouldn’t be grouped with the thread, or took a while to appear. Being able to edit posts in Discourse is also nice.
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Very glad to see this forum exists. I’ve been using Qubes since before v3 and while the community has always been very helpful I never got on with the Google Groups for a variety of reasons (not least because I kept top-posting by mistake). Discourse is so much more user-friendly and conducive to good conversation (although yet another time-sink!). Has anyone backed up the Google Group btw?
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Yes, it’s been backed up to mail-archive for quite a long time now. More info: https://www.qubes-os.org/support/