@PhenomX6 If you know server-side scripting and databases, it actually isn't that hard to write your own simple forum software from scratch.

@xianc78 By the way I might as well provide context. There's a certain community around a obsolete platform that's only on Discord. This is bad for multiple reasons, but the most important one is that information on the platform is hard to find because the Western community revolves around a subreddit and Discord group. The second less serious problem is one of the admins (without going into detail) has done things that have led others to avoid the community. Thankfully they've been AFK most of the time on Discord but considering their mental state there's a good chance they might start banning people, threatening to delete the server, or worse. I'm not saying that will happen, but that is exactly what happened to a discord server I lurked for months.

Essentially I want to move the community away from the trashfire of >join a Discord server and the drama that entails.

@PhenomX6 Well, you do have the problem of them just simply moving to another subreddit or Discord server. You need to keep in mind that you have a lot of zoomers who probably don't even know what a forum is.

@xianc78 Definitely. I'd definitely run a Discord server or similar down the line too since I'd like to form a "better" community.