FOR THE LAST TIME - THE FORUM IS NOT BEING CLOSED IN FAVOR OF DISCORD
I hope that was obvious enough to not be missed again. Both the forum and the Discord have existed side by side for nearly a decade. Discord's existence has literally nothing to do with the closure of the forum - it's just time for it to go as it's old, almost abandoned code that almost nobody uses. Forums would be just as much a target as Discord would be for the law you're referring to anyway so it's really not something that's worth considering in this context. But in the worst-case, the site will still provide a method for members to email one another which means even in your worst-case scenario, communication doesn't just die entirely.
Also, this isn't even a DYKG forum - not sure how its closure affects DYKG's community in any way?
I hope that was obvious enough to not be missed again. Both the forum and the Discord have existed side by side for nearly a decade. Discord's existence has literally nothing to do with the closure of the forum - it's just time for it to go as it's old, almost abandoned code that almost nobody uses. Forums would be just as much a target as Discord would be for the law you're referring to anyway so it's really not something that's worth considering in this context. But in the worst-case, the site will still provide a method for members to email one another which means even in your worst-case scenario, communication doesn't just die entirely.
Also, this isn't even a DYKG forum - not sure how its closure affects DYKG's community in any way?