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Forums are a better technology but come with hosting costs
The dumb part about that, though, is that it's considerably easy to spin up a forum with a free forum host and you get significantly more control and customization than what Discord gives.
Discourse is a forum platform and now has a similar layout like Discord.
When things seem free, you're not the customer.
No
When profit is the motive you are not the customer, the shareholders are