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@aeva yup exactly, basically all of the above and even more.

@hardpenguin13 ah yeah discord is moving towards less anonymity for sure!

@hardpenguin13 agree on centralised. Disagree on private for the most part - forums were open (that's a key reason people seem to like them), IRC was often open too, and discord voice calls are largely just as private from a layman perspective.

I'm fascinated by Discord discourse because I think a lot of folks just aren't getting it

Back in the day:
Forums provided slow, searchable, referencable, detailed and categorised async comms, largely publicly, nurtured by admins and mods
IRC provided fast, synchronous, minimal and mostly ephemeral comms, largely privately and nurtured by admins and mods.
TS/Vent provided instant, completely ephemeral and private comms, usually gated by IRC access.

Think about what Discord provides.