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Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy
(www.newsweek.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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There's nothing intrinsically bad or "archaic" about forums. It's the forum platforms that sucked for some people. It took some thought and work to manage a forum. The only advantage a Discord server had was that it's simple enough, a brain damaged squirrel could run one. It saved you from having to do your homework and just created a simple plug-and-play space that required no skill on the owner/mods part.
I literally used forums for over a decade, grew up on them, ran my own phpbb and vBulletin, forums suck when real time communication with the same features and MORE exists.
Edit: The world is never going back to IRC or forums, get over it.
What we can do, is build a better platform learning from the failures of existing platforms. It seems everyone here doesn't understand that is exactly what I'm saying.
Forums are archaic, which is why they died and platforms like reddit and discord flourished.
I obviously have problems with both of those platforms, which is why I'm on Lemmy and love the idea of federation.
I like the idea of Matrix, however I don't see any indication in the slightest that it is going to solve the real problem with how discord is used in relation to being a "troubleshooting/ticketing/solutions" gateway, as far as I'm aware they are not indexable and accessible outside of using a matrix client.
The best of both worlds would be federated, have features built with indexability and discoverability in mind, while still retaining the real-time communication aspects that discord has.