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Comment by CSMastermind | Hacker News Reader

For discussing entertainment like specific video games, movies, book series, TV shows, sports teams, etc. there simply isn't a good alternative to Reddit.

I hate the site and have limited the time I spend on it but there aren't good alternatives for certain communities.

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IMDB forums used to be a community for film and TV but amazon killed it in its infinite wisdom of lowest common denominator

I miss those forums! They were simple and fun, and each board being scoped to a specific movie/show kept all the conversations very focused.

Moviechat.org seems to be a spiritual successor, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of its initial content is archived IMDB forum posts, but it's not nearly as active.

For most entertainment topics, the-avocado.org has some lively discussion (based on Disqus).

I’m amazed that nobody has eaten Disqus lunch yet by just making “Disqus, but stable.”

OpenWeb did for all the big publishers: https://www.openweb.com/

I find that discord has far better communities than Reddit ever did

The issue with Discord, besides UI gripes and excessive chattiness, is that it’s not discoverable.

Discord is like reinventing IRC with more noise. It's not a substitute for forums.

You can have forums in discord now as well, not just chat rooms.

Can they be accessed and indexed without being invited to the channel?

I can't find discord comments on Google.

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