Thoughts
Venting HN comment here
> Discord is being used as a pretty tangible alternative. Conversations that would happen in the Reddit comments can happen in a Discord channel, and many big Discord communities have channels like `#showoff` where people can post bigger projects. There are downsides like the lack of SEO, Reddit-style comment replies, and the upvote algorithm, but there are also advantages like real-time communication and privacy (in that your comments won’t show up in web results years later).