Gotta be you, gotta be the personal preferences because I'm not that fond of Discord. I'm within same age and similar interests. The good side of using Discord

Gotta be you, gotta be the personal preferences because I'm not that fond of Discord. I'm within same age and similar interests. The good side of using Discord - or similar chat platforms is that interaction seems to be faster than on forums but by a cost of being buried under memes or all sorts of unrelated information and messages. Then, there's also the issue of longevity of information on Discord if server beside the generic social operation is being used as a way of support for the community; the ticket systems are in most of the cases temporary - your issue once resolved is being deleted and you cannot access it again. The advantage of forums - at least for me, is that information on these is within the reach of every person by a standard search engine; you can "comb" through stuff globally or by using local forums search feature. You don't need to be on particular forums to access it, unlike on Discord. But there are of course downsides like limited access to content (register to access links, images) or search engines not being able to index all stuff. I'd personally prefer if Discord would be used as complementary tool for any community and not as the replacement of forums. Not sure if reddit with its subs counts as forums or more as an content aggregator with commenting feature. But still, some communities use subs as one of official communication channels or unofficial but with "blessing", or as an unofficial alternative to official forums (the r/guildwars2 vs official strictly moderated forums case).