I don't recall if this topic came up in one of the other Liferay-hell threads, but have you considered migrating away from it? It's starting to seem like a sunk cost fallacy.

I know you've praised the potential power of using Liferay in the past. But:

1) We don't really use it for anything more than a standard forum ("message board portlet"), a bit of a Wiki, and sometimes chat (does it even work anymore?).

2) Even if we wanted one monolithic hunk of software with more features than a standard forum provides (questionable), there are better alternatives than Liferay for that (pretty sure).

My suggestion would be to use a more modern, well-supported forum software and then whatever else is needed can be separate. Real-time chat? Discord, Slack, etc. Wiki features beyond what a forum software provides? Dedicated Wiki software. Etc. Something like Discourse fits the forum bill. It's modern, popular, looks good, featureful, open-source, can be self-hosted, can be managed hosted by Discourse itself, etc. They use it over at Suttacentral, for example.

I was reading a bit about Liferay and, predictably, they don't make it easy to migrate away from them. We'd have to use the API and manually dump all the posts in the format that Discourse (or whatever) wants. It would be a pain in the ass, links inside posts would probably break, formatting might be a pain, etc. But, I think it's probably better than continuing to invest in an overkill, dying solution.

Thoughts?