Farewell...

[SuperSajuuk]

I dont think Discord will work... isn't it more a chat room thing? Yes you can create separate rooms but how do you create threads? It will have too much of a noise to content ratio.

Its as simple as clicking a button in the app, or on mobile, by long pressing a msg and then “create thread”. I’m on mobile at the moment so i can’t show it properly from the desktop view, but its pretty easy to make a thread on a discord server.

"old fart view" but the main issue with Discord is that it's entirely owned and operated by a single company, you operate on their terms, and as with most startups they're endlessly looking to "monetise" it. It already annoys me that too many dedicated forums have been cannibalised by discord "servers" and you have to faff around with creating an account and downloading software to get to it.

since it's private it isn't indexed by search engines and is not useful as any sort of historical record (as the TVF and soon TVLF archives are)

The problem is, hosting an archive website of a forum still costs someone money, both for the hosting provider [on a monthly or annual basis] and the regular domain fee once a year. So while Rob will be archiving this site, it’s still going to cost him money to keep it in its archived state. Eventually, the site will vanish when he chooses to stop paying the hosting and domain bills, and then the data is lost anyway, other than via the wayback machine, which may or may not capture everything.

Ultimately, i don’t mind where the community ends up, but it should be in a place endorsed by this sites’ administrators/moderators.