I think one thing missing from “discourse” forums is a suitable reply system that would allow some off topic discussions continue and the reader is able to collapse that whole side discussion that is not furthering the topic (directly).
Without that feature we have a problem for some and not for others. That is for instance members who wish to learn about exchanging coins go to a suitable topic on the subject, and they really don’t want to wade through 20 or more reply posts about political economics to find out the answer asked previously and perhaps miss the answer post half way through the interesting (to some) discussion on politics and its relations to crypto.
Are you able to suggest a compromise that allows both objectives (1. learn, 2. free discuss) to exist in harmony without asking the political discussions be done in another thread. Understanding discourse while good doesn’t seem to facilitate the reply inline & collapse feature