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Discord? I dread "subscribe to my discord". The average discord seems to have 780 rooms but only 3 people logged in, they are kinda like zombies except that the word "brains" has 5 letters too many for them to handle.

Ironically the same thing used to be true for forums :)

Someone really enthusiastically started a forum, added 420 different sub-areas and sub-forums. All of which have a maximum of 1-10 posts. Most of them by the forum admin.

Not only that but there seems to be a MUCH worse signal-to-noise ratio in every discord I've ever seen (when compared to forums), due to the more chat-like nature of the platform.

Seriously. One discord that I am unfortunately on has one person who just drivels on and on and on. But I can't mute him, and he does this even on channels that are the whole reason that I bother with it. Apparently there is little or no moderation possible, so everyone has to put up with his train of though word vomit.

It's not like IRC or forums are any better in regard to inactive accounts.

> If they didn't has discord/slack/reddit, it's not worth joining.

Different folks, different strokes I guess.

If I see a “community” require Slack or Discord, it instantly gives me bad vibes, and I’m almost guaranteed not to join or visit.

Then why did you join HN?