My One Gripe About Forums Dying – Gitz and Glory

My One Gripe About Forums Dying

13 Jun, 2026

I just read vidknights' post "I feel that the internet gotten too close" and I really agree with the message. Forums were awesome. A great organized way of chatting and sharing information. Also they were great for finding said information.

I am really into getting better at games, because I want to be an at least "interresting" opponent instead of being a sandbag. Well I'm not that old, but I still remember going onto Smashboards, MTG Salvation or The Source to read up on the newest tech or how to play certain decks or characters. These websites were indexed by search engines, and the forums were usually well organized. You could reasonably find what you needed in these forums.

Nowadays all this information is hidden in Discord servers. When trying to find something for Warhammer Age of Sigmar as an example: The thing you want to know might be hidden in the depths of your factions channel in the AoS Coach Discord server. Good look finding that with the search function, while having no clue what you are actually looking for. Also this stuff isn't indexed by any search engine. Also Good Luck trying to find a working Discord invite for more niche topics.

Discord also seemed to be the death of people writing primers on different decks/characters/armies/strategies. I loved reading a quick overview of a strategy.

I would love if forums were revived just for that reason, but I don't think people will move on from Discord.