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Getting people that you want to talk to -- friends, family, etc -- onto is a new platform is so difficult. No one wants to have 10 different communications apps, plus associated accounts*, just so they can talk to one or two people on each. It's the network effect. It also doesn't help that some of these platforms just aren't as convenient or easy to use, especially for non-tech people.
But yeah, so many of these communities make no sense on Discord (or live chat period; IRC suffered from this too). I think troubleshooting is the worst, especially in larger, active communities. You have different conversations going on, so it's easy to miss questions or answers. Plus, Discord's search isn't great, IMO. Better than reddit, but that's not saying much. So someone probably asked the same question some time ago; good luck finding it, and even if you do, you still have to sift through the adjacent chat history to see if others responded and track that conversation.
Larger Discords remind me of the chats of large Twitch streamers, where the chat is going a million miles per hour. What's even the point?
At least with a forum, it's much slowed down, and there are clear divisions between topics, that give people the space to discuss those topics.
Websites are so easy to make these days, too. No coding experience even needed. I'm not saying Discord is worthless; it's not and I use it plenty everyday. But it has its place. People need to use the right tools for the job.
*In many ways, websites suffer this issue, too. I have to make an account on this standalone separate website, just for my one question, and then after it gets answered, I'll probably never go back to it? That's why reddit (and Lemmy to a lesser extent) is so popular.