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Forums are a better technology but come with hosting costs
When things seem free, you're not the customer.
No
When profit is the motive you are not the customer, the shareholders are
Discourse is a forum platform and now has a similar layout like Discord.
The dumb part about that, though, is that it's considerably easy to spin up a forum with a free forum host and you get significantly more control and customization than what Discord gives.