Discord is a black hole for information
I probably missed the window on this conversation, but what I want is a halfway point between Discord and Reddit.<p>Yes, it's probably proprietary.<p>- I log in to one website, and I see all my forums. 
- I don't want to log in to seven different forums. Like Discord, I log in once and see everything.
- Forums are private. Like Discord, they're not scraped, they're not open to the public. There are some very public Discords, but all of them require initial permission to access, which can be removed.
- Conversations are chronological, not the weird reddit tree.
- Forums don't have a permanent URL. There is no 'r/programming' or 'r/politics' or whatever. _Your_ programming community is different from _my_ programming community.<p>Companies keep switching their private forums to Discord because they don't have to host. What if we just had a centralized place to host a forum? That ran like a normal forum.<p>People could pay for 'Nitro', forums hosts could pay for QoL benefits in their forum, etc. Minimally intrusive ads. Stuff like that.<p>I realize it being proprietary perpetuates a lot of problems, but I feel like we nerds haven't solved the distributed <-> ease of access problem yet.