I agree, higher quality conversations happen more often on forums and they're much easier to search and access if you're not a member. But forums are also much

I agree, higher quality conversations happen more often on forums and they're much easier to search and access if you're not a member. But forums are also much easier to moderate than Discord - a message or image you might not want posted in your Discord scrolls up quickly (as people react to a troll or something inappropriate), and you tend to need moderators on-hand a lot of the time to react quickly, which can also mean moderators from a bunch of different timezones are required. On forums, yes, a rule breaking message can be posted whenever, but the pace of chat is much slower and the immediacy of effect on everything that follows is lessened.