Re:Ask HN: Did forums solve what Discord and Reddit still do...
by newaccountman2 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @12:20PM
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If you hang out around various programming related ones, I think people are clued into it.
ReScript, Rust, Functional Programming Discords come to mind for me.
Re:Ask HN: Did forums solve what Discord and Reddit still do...
by tolarianwiz on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:07PM
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Thanks, I’ll look into those cases.
I think the hard part is that Discord solves presence, Reddit solves discovery, and forums solve memory/structure, but none of them combines all three very well.
The question is whether the pain is strong enough to justify trying to build a new kind of platform that combines those three things gracefully.
I’m trying to understand whether this is just an abstract annoyance or whether there are actual communities looking for a better platform.