But the issue is no replacement is proposed by the author.
Discord has the advantage of:
- being free
- being maintained by someone else
- being used by a lot of people, so no need to create a new account for many users
- being very useful as a chat and growing organically as support from there
I don't see many competitors available. For example discourse is paid 50€ per month for 100 users maximum, which small project can pay that ?
Edit: I rarely see FB mentioned on these debates but it's probably by far the biggest place used for forum. I'm a member of several 10k+ groups. Even discords don't come close of it. The official bambulab group is 60k people, the hiking group of my area (1 million inhabitants max) is 30k people. The numbers are insane, as is the information invisible and lost