Why did we replace forums with Discord?

Discord is so terrible. I refuse to use that turd; it is a blight.

The short answer for why forums disappeared is that they were difficult to monetize, and that sealed their doom. Monetization and the drive to it became all that mattered as the vulture capitalists took over and extinguished all that could not be IPOed.

And that is most of the answer. But truly, fuck Discord.