@Devs
I've setup a NodeBB forum and it seems to be working perfectly. Could you tell us what stability issues you guys were having? Did NodeBB experience instability under stress tests?
Without hiring another developer to help customize and setup the forum the way we wanted it, we were having issues getting it to function the way we wanted it to. If you use the default template and simply install the base install, it functions ok. That being said, we couldn't afford to take Boris off of finishing Crypti and we didn't have the finds to hire a secondary developer to help us setup the forum the way we wanted it to function, therefore, as I said when I announced the decision to go with SMF, we weren't ruling it out all together, but at the time it just wasn't working for what we wanted to do.
We tested it internally for a couple weeks and the default just wasn't appealing to members of our team and to do the adjustments we wanted was going to take development work and customizations we couldn't do at the time. I still haven't written off the idea of using it, you know I am a fan, but we will have to re-visit it at a later time.
If you want to develop a NodeBB forum, customize it to not use the masonry style homepage, and get it to a stable point with all of the features necessary for our community (for instance if you can get the homepage modules to work, that was one thing that was bricking for me with the theme we were trying to use), then we would be more than willing to talk about having it be the official forums for the devs to use to answer questions, etc. As long as I can get admin privaleges to assign moderators and control the private forums for members, then I would be happy to discuss it.