I agree with this 100%. Although it is hard to fault companies for making the change if barely anyone is using the forums.

I used to play on an Ultima Online player ran shard. The forums were great, from trash talking, role playing, trading, and general shard information. The forum even had a chat box, where you could go back and forth with people in real time. Then a Discord room was setup. The forums were dead within a month.

I think Discord was perfect for guilds, especially with the voice chat options, but it really sucked compared to the forums for everything else.

More on the end of true internet discussion. Just bots and regurgitated theories about how white people are secretly black people when black people commit crimes (58% percent of the crimes).