Was wondering if anyone had even thought of, let alone used NodeBB for Drupal comments? I kinda like the idea of using it instead of the default comment system. It allows some more finer discussion control I think, while keeping unneeded people from having accounts on the content pages.
@cwsmith even with better #Drupal core support for ActivityPub, this is still a great idea because of the number of sites that don't want more accounts in their CMS db. Even a feature like Webform presents a challenge during a large upgrade. While increasing the cache time for a reverse proxy edge cache and communicating the window for the upgrade to content editors, you can make large changes w/o impacting anonymous users... except features that can't be chached like Webform.