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And it doesn't make sense as Discord doesn't even work like Reddit does.

With Reddit you have posts and comments, but with Discord you have an ongoing discussion. With Reddit communication is async, but with Discord it's live.

I even use Discord, but the forum model is superior for almost all interactions I'm interested in.

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I agree. While Discord brings some unique community tooling aspects to the table, it does not fit the forum model given the data is walled off.

I've been working on a platform that's sort of like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid that combines the feature set of Discord with the discovery and threaded style of discussion of Reddit.

Here's an example community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sports/board/trending

I felt like this is what I am missing as well from many of these subs going to discord. It might make some sense for meme subs and such, but not for the vast majority of subs.

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