Thanks for the offer, Mottosso.
There have been lengthy discussions about migrating the forum to Discourse, or a similar backend, but nothing has been decided yet. On the one hand, Zoho can be a pain indeed and a backend like Discourse would give us a lot more opportunities to build a nice community and have additional features like Github integration and the likes.
On the other hand, I am pretty sure it's a daunting task to transition the contents of 5+ years to another backend without losing cross references and links to data and images. It would also mean that all links from external websites to our forums would instantly break. It would be a huge sacrifice to make.
There is an alternative: close the current forums by making them read-only, then activate the new forums and start from scratch. But this may alienate people, too.
Because the forum is at the heart of Cinder's community, the decision should not be made lightly. And I will probably not even be involved with making that decision. But it's on the to do list.
Thanks for your input and offer, "we" will come back to it.
-Paul