There is, and there has never been value behind discord's closed doors. Don't waste your words there, it is like talking to the wind.

I don't know what you mean by "necroposting" hate moderator brainworm". Care to elaborate one what this I and why it is bad?

Yeah. Closing threads after a few days or getting mad at users for replying to old posts is stupid and bandwagony.

well, the problem is not that forums are not real time. the problem is that people use real time chats for things that should't be done in real time. like guides, which should stand on their own as an organized post, easily searched and found.

"real time" chats, that is, instant messengers, have their time and place. they have been around for a while, but they never really replaced forums. until discord came, which kind of then did. which i guess also resulted from facebook groups, twitter, instagram, and reddit first kind of partially replacing forums, after which then forums really fell out of favor, and discord really is way easier and better to interact with than any of the others mentioned (aside from maybe reddit). people are also just lazy and jusy use whatever works.

and people then started using discord like a forum since forums are almost dead and discord is just simple and easy. so many guides, info, announcements, etc. are put in discord like it is a forum since the admittedly amazing features for roles and bots make it convenient.

it all gets lost in a sea instant messaging organizing. to find something, one must go to one of a a bunch pinned messages in one of the bajillion channels that links to a post (i say oost, it is actually a message) which in turn links to a series of messages where someone knowledgeable posted something useful intertwined with shitpost messages fromither people. if you are lucky, someone made a google doc for a guide, but those also suck, and they are also not easily found unless you know the guy who knows the guy who knows which pinned message in which channel has the link to it.

Well, forums are not real time, and that’s what most people these days want apparently.

I think people use discord where it's a bad fit not because it's what most people want, but because it's what's familiar, free, and already in front of them.

Forums are the best? I still can get info from electronics forums from 20y ago and it's well organized.

I don't see any other alternatives, revolt chat is new and just a discord alternative that sucks as well while element is fricking bad at indexing stuff, you can't search anything there not to mention their bad encryption.

I just use chatgpt, a sufficient surrogate for the rest of humanity. At least as it pertains to knowledge before 2023.

I looked into matrix servers the other day for an unrelated reason and tbh the amount of resources they ask for is way more than you need for a webpage (dendrite asks for 1gb ram minimum for a number of users, and that's without accounting for postgres)

Well, that's a new one. I'm sure that I typed Discord, but evidently I failed. Thank you for pointing that out. I could blame auto correct, but even that is hard to check, since my keyboard recommended next word follows an evolution that I'm unable to grok.

As an aside, thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of the discourse forum software.

I want bulletin boards to make a comeback.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB