I hate that Discord is being used as a forum replacement because it’s fucking terrible for it. There’s pretty much no way to collate and archive information in a way that is actually useful.

Don't forget random Telegram groups!

Kagi could be a good alternative to Google Translate: https://translate.kagi.com/translate/https://www.xataka.com/servicios/foros-internet-estan-desapareciendo-porque-ahora-todo-reddit-discord-eso-preocupante

I hope someone is archiving that data. Lots of great small communities with great info/help.

Yeah, bring back Usenet! (rabble, rabble, rabble) /s

Doesn't that depend on the forums, though? For many organizations, those sites fit the needs perfectly fine. If you don't care about archiving and you would not be totally screwed if the forum disappeared tomorrow, you're going to opt for something simple like that.

...and Facebook Groups.

A lot of people simply don't realize that a lot of traditional community, especially more niche are moving to Facebook. There's no even Reddit alternative for them.

From fried chicken cooking, big tree photography, McDonalds toys collector, to local history archiver.

It's harder to convince them here, unless there are Facebook Group alternative for fediverse.

What are we going to do about it?

Quit whining about it and make a good community outside of those.

Be a good community member yourself.

I see myself coming less and less to Lemmy due to how monotopic this place is. And how aggressively stupid people here can be.

I agree with the previous comments: forums are hard to manage because of trolls, hackers and lack of dedicated resources ... The main responsible being, before reddit and discord, the ugly social networks mainly facebook. I hope this company will crumble ...

it’s worrying because all that knowledge will be lost instead of living somewhere in a forum indexed by a search engine.

But in the same time, I see more people fleeing from traditional search engines to AI … I don’t know where we’re heading at

Im starting to see Lemmy isn't any better. Mods deleting my comments for asking questions.

I have never once used discord and it makes me wonder how much information I haven’t been able to find, but I’ve managed to get what I need so I don’t know if it was important anyway.

Here is a chrome extension that copies all messeges and media from a discord server you're a part of.

In case the stuff on a server is what keeps you coming back.

I have been trying to build a forum recently, but found phpbb really ugly and difficult to customize (even changing the logo was oddly difficult). I know about discourse but I would prefer a PHP based solution I can host in one of my current servers.

Are there any better solutions?