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Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
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It's because of this bullshit.
Take a guess how many members this server/example community serves:
500? 2000? 10,000+?
Surely, a group of 50,000 needs a ticket system, age verification, moderation, and rules/TOS+registration?
There are twelve users in that chat/server. Three of the 12 are moderators. One is the "owner".
Discord became a "community tool" because Discord moderators/"creators" are a special class of human being who realized their dream model train set could be upgraded with Internet connectivity.
Medium-to-large-scale-enterprise tooling is available to spin up for anyone, without having to pay for anything. In fact, Discord incentivizes donations through "boosts" where the users of a community pay for server costs rather than the hosts/maintainers themselves.
As a result, people go ham and never invest in proper training, role division or infrastructure. They cosplay at running a pseudo-corporation and Discord adds their requested features, at a price/donation premium.
P.S: I run a Discord channel of 223 users with no moderation, we have one text channel and two voice channels. We use the service like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak for a Steam Clan. I've literally had these busybodies from disparate communities join just to tell me I was "doing it wrong".
P.S.S: I also hate HOAs.
Ah, the dream of having control over others alive even in a space as pathetic as a video game chat room. You definitely aren’t doing it wrong your way.
a server I was a part of a while ago had maybe 30 people, but with a ton of topic based channels. the 'owner' would CONSTANTLY bitch about conversations being too specific for general and reprimand people.
even in one server I'm currently in, which has ~2500 members, there's really only 50 people active on it. one of the mods still does this all the time ("tAkE iT tO #PoLiTiCs") and it inevitably only ends the conversation every time. nice "community".
Whenever anyone tells me a discussion should be moved I am done. The spell is broken and the social interaction concluded because I'm no longer interested. Discord channels are fucking social poison.
I'm reminded of forums that would have a million subforums and as a result never build up any critical mass. Have one big bucket, maybe two, and if something comes up often enough organically then, and only then, consider a separate subforum for it.