If you need a discussion forum, Discourse is significantly more responsive than Loomio on both desktop and mobile. I no longer recommend users set up groups on Loomio.org unless you're sure your group will use the dedicated proposal and polling tools (the one thing Loomio does well), all your members have late model devices and your group can afford a paid plan:
https://www.loomio.org/pricing
Here's a long list of online decision-making platforms curated by the Democracy Foundation, most are free code:
https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects/
Anyone keen to help me go through them all and add them to this list, with information on features, architecture, license, steward organization etc?
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Online_Decision_Platforms
