Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.
The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.
Forums shows up in web searches and not needing an account to look through them makes them better than discord.
And if you really wanted you can archive a forum page, but how many dead discord channels can be looked through on archive.org