I know of a couple Discord servers with "help" channels being used to completely replace forums which would have served the same purpose back in the day. Not sure if that's what it's talking about.
Then why are people using it as one?
Because they hate themselves /s
Two things can be true
Because it’s convenient
Discord has evolved from more or less being a series of chatrooms (like IRC) to having “threads” that work a lot like how a forum would typically be used.
In the repair community, a lot of conversation about component level repair has moved to Discord channels. Sites like badcaps.net or the Rossmann group forums have comparatively low usage.
Nested away in Discord, this information doesn’t show up in search engine results and can’t be archived by web crawlers. When a Discord server is deleted or made private, that information is forever lost.
Discord is not a forum lol
I know of a couple Discord servers with "help" channels being used to completely replace forums which would have served the same purpose back in the day. Not sure if that's what it's talking about.
Then why are people using it as one?
Because they hate themselves /s
Two things can be true
Because it’s convenient
Discord has evolved from more or less being a series of chatrooms (like IRC) to having “threads” that work a lot like how a forum would typically be used.
In the repair community, a lot of conversation about component level repair has moved to Discord channels. Sites like badcaps.net or the Rossmann group forums have comparatively low usage. Nested away in Discord, this information doesn’t show up in search engine results and can’t be archived by web crawlers. When a Discord server is deleted or made private, that information is forever lost.