The original title is "Discord revolutionizes online conversations with... forums" meant ironic, but HN autoremoves such peculiarities.
Does anyone remembers the good old IRC chat? I think it was a mind-blowing and decentralized option (outside the influence of big tech) to have conversations and debates. Why and when did we bid adieu to IRC and started settling with things like Discord? (which is no doubt good by the looks of it, but still subject to big tech influence)
IRC didn't have integrated audio chats and media sharing. People want that in one place today. I don't like using discord to be honest. IRC had the same problem that content couldn't be crawled without logs, but the info here just as fleeting. I believe some content creators do not really make their lives easier when they decide to publish in discord channels. It might look like a lot of engagement compared to a forum or other online presence, but the discoverability is very bad and almost no content will leave the platform again.
It is still behind a walled garden as long as it is not search engine searchable.