Hey HN - sorry for the amateur website. We had recently started building towards the idea when a friend notified me that a couple discussions around this subject of community forums vs Discord happened here so I figured I would jump in and put this out here while it is top of mind.<p>Discord now has a stronghold on community platforms. The reason it is valued are two-fold:
- Quick and easy to spin up
- Pushes for noise and activity rather than benefit or knowledge (which companies who wanna boast numbers value)<p>We would like to bring back the good old fashioned community forums with a couple twists:
- As much spam-free as possible through AI flagging (used to be a problem)
- Chat baked inside (chatrooms being optional under discussions)
- Multi-tenant authentication (one registration will be enough to join other community forum instances)<p>We are looking to talk to more people and would love to hear critique about this. All feedback is super welcome.