Comment by curun1r
5 years ago
There’s risk in everything…self-hosted forum software run by an open source project also has a potential of going offline, either because hosting becomes onerous/expensive or some sort of database issue. Discord and Github have the exact same potential you’ve mentioned for Reddit. There’s no perfect answer.
If it's quality conversation, it will be quoted elsewhere, mirrored (if only to add ads!) and even archived for example on archive.com. Blog posts will be written that refer to it as a rationale for doing that way.