Think Twice Before You Use Discord for Your Community

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  • Discourse

    A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

  • Yep. Any platform run by someone else can kick you off for any reason, and time.

    You should consider looking into running discourse, which is a modernized forum software: https://github.com/discourse/discourse

    Nice examples of what it looks like:

    https://discourse.nixos.org/

    https://forum.level1techs.com/

    As a bonus, the content and community will be accessible to search engines, so it’s easy to find answers to problems that gave been already been addressed.

    In general, consider combining the two, where discourse is the anchor of the community that can’t be yanked out from under you, while discord is the one that sells the data from your players in exchange for free voice and text chat.

    It’s also possible to enable logging in with discord credentials https://meta.discourse.org/t/configure-discord-login-for-dis...

    As well as pushing content from discord to discourse so it’s not hidden and losable: https://blog.discourse.org/2021/05/discord-and-discourse-bet...

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