(2021-09-16) Eurogamer Closes Its Forums And Moves Its Readers To Discord

Eurogamer Closes Its Forums And Moves Its Readers To Discord. Discord is great for talking in the moment.

Discussion Forums aren’t the same though. They’re nothing like it. Forums are more deliberate, more considered, and while they’re far from perfect—I’m sure you can post a billion examples of people being neither deliberate or considered on forums—the point is that they’re more permanent.

Forums create a record, an archive we can search through, so that whenever we want to revisit issues, or find help with a problem, or see what was happening during a certain time, we can do that. There’s a paper trail, and while sometimes that leads to embarrassing takes on tv shows and game reveals, other times it’s providing an enormous help with technical issues or parts of a game you’re stuck on.

While every company closing forums and moving people to Discord in 2021 might have their reasons, if this trend keeps up we’re going to look around in 2026, not be able to find a whole ton of cool and/or interesting stuff and discover to our horror that, somehow, the internet had got even worse.