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I've seen a trending post on HN about the disavantages of using Discord vs a Forum. Coincidentally I've been working on a solution for that in the past weeks that allows you to create a mirrored version of your Discord server as an online forum.

Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29154216

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I certainly get having some kind of searchable log of a Discord server, but turning that into an actual forum with separate discussion threads and everything strikes me as something that probably doesn't work all that well. The forms of communication used in chats and in forums are pretty different. How have you handled this?

How about the other direction as well, forum-first discussions going into chat?

That's a very good point, the idea is to allow the moderators to pick the best content through the help of a Discord bot. Of course I recognize the content shared won't be on par with the one you can find on a Forum but that depends a lot on how the community is using threads. I'm working also on a way to filter out meaningless content or at least help moderators in repurposing only the best content they have on Discord. The other way around seems also a very good idea, I'll think about it for sure

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