Maybe there's room for next-gen self hosted forum software with chat feature. Chat at a typical forum-esau's discord's pace isn't that fast - you don't need a

Maybe there's room for next-gen self hosted forum software with chat feature. Chat at a typical forum-esau's discord's pace isn't that fast - you don't need a giant horizontally-scaling architecture to support your community's chat needs. Heh or maybe you just frankenstein a forum with an irc server (with hosted history) and call it a day!