Indeed that’s a major concern we had when choosing Discourse as our forum software. One can read in the forum without JavaScript, although everything’s quite ugly then.
We tried to solve the participation problem by opening an anonymous category where everyone can send in emails and reply by replying to the forum’s notifications mails. Once you have successfully created an account with JavaScript, you can send your account to “Watching” on all categories and participate in all later topics by replying to the forum’s mails.
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