[tommica]

Problem with discord is that it is still just a chat, with forums a newbie has a lot of threads to go through, lots of specific content to consume.

[Matl]

Discord is attempting to have something more like forums[1], but as am not a heavy Discord user I haven't tried it myself.

I used to run a phpBB forum and there was something about being an admin of a forum where people you didn't know in real life came to talk. The fact that Discord distorts the term 'server' to mean 'a channel managed by us' irks me.

1 - https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-...

[hunter2_]

I've gleaned that they use 'server' as something more like a 'workspace' in Slack: a set of channels and people. Odd, either way.

[rchaud]

Square pegs into round holes. Discord's thread UI is identical to Slack's, and they're both useless for any discussions larger than ~50 messages or ~5 people.

[herodoturtle]

Yup agreed - and also forums are particularly suitable to the introverted lurkers among us ^_^