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I believe Discord and Telegram may fill in the gap. WhatsApp is kind of personal, where you communicate with your real world friends.

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But these are all closed communities. I just think that it would be a point in having a community that is also searchable from google? Why is closed communities like Discord so popular?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse If you’re thinking closer to forum software of yore.

If you don’t mind being centralized Reddit is what really killed forums and is still very good despite a drive to make it worse every year. There are many Reddit clones as well.

Generally, what kills forums is they’re too much work to administer. When spammers are working full time, the only services that can survive also have full time admins.

And that’s ignoring that phpbb/wordpress are insecure and need patching all the time.

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