Comment by ljm
5 years ago
What if you don't need a community? Why does everything have to be a community now?
To that point: slack/discord/irc/whatsapp/pub conversations are a great way to bootstrap a community before you invest in something longer term, if it's needed. Find your like-minded friends and then grow it out.
In fact, I can use my own experience in the mid-2000s as an example: we used existing forums like Gamesradar and rllmuk and neogaf to bootstrap our offshoot forums. Most failed, some succeeded for a while (one was PoopGang IIRC).
Discord servers aren't really so different from that.
"Why does everything have to be a community now?"
It always did. The key is searchability - you can find discussions through Google and they will have an answerr to your question