Here's the announcement made preparing the playerbase of this change: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/an-update-regarding-our-forums
It's evident that vital conversations and community voices often get lost, whereas external platforms offer enhanced functionality, including livestreaming 'Stages,' voice chat channels, and more convenient shortcuts to the topics that are most relevant to you.
Naturally, we're eager to help communities find new homes for Clan Recruitment and similar ways to connect – we've already helped our respective Groomercord servers prepare so that Clans can continue to enjoy the same functionality as before, but with a more direct and timely method of connecting with our JMods and other players.
Who benefits from switches to groomercord? Now you know who!
Back to the blogpost linked in this post's title
Literally the first paragraph after "Join our official community hubs" is:
Firstly, there's the Official Groomercord! Here we've established a thriving Clan section for you to connect and chat with Clannies across the globe. You can also drop in and ask questions of our wonderful Mentors, a community of helpful players who will be delighted to help you get on the right track! Whatever you're looking for, you're sure to find it on the Groomercord – and you might even spot a JMod or two in there as well. Sometimes they're asking for feedback or suggestions, so don't be shy if you see one…
Reddit and /v/ react:
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/671681023/#671681023
Groomercord vs Forums is basically Fandom vs actual wikis.
This is the best way I've seen to describe the difference between groomercord and forums to the uninvolved that isn't a paragraph long, and doesn't rely on invoking chuddery
Keyed offtopic argument, see the first reply to each successive reply
https://old.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/194xrwv/an_update_regarding_our_forums/
https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/1bqnk3b/v_talks_about_the_forum_being_shut_down/
the problem i have with groomercord instead of forums is that groomercord servers are not public
there is no large searchable database of topics that people talk about on groomercord servers that any search engine can access if you want to search for answers you need to be on the right server first, on the wrong server? no answer for you, got banned from that server for any one of a multitude of reasons including a janitor going on a power trip? no answers for you.
if a server gets shut down that's it its all gone there is no waybackmachine there is no archive
groomercord in place of forums is just a black hole of information.
reddit is not quite so bad in that you can archive and search it but who knows when reddit is going to decide that being searchable and archivable is bad for the bottom line as they did with 3rd party apps?
if a subreddit gets shut down its all gone apart from what got archived
but hey relying on a third party service (especially one that just did an IPO) for your forum needs is a great idea as you don't have to pay server hosting costs
As always, read https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/218652/groomercord-and-the-death-of-lore
!g*mers important news that I didn't find in a search for runescape here
!chuds western gaming and ancient forum heritage have fallen to the 'cord menace yet again
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Someday the groomercordians will pay for their crimes against forumcels
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groomercordians are NOT the same as groomercord users
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Forums were long dead before groomercord lol. Reddit and the like ruined them. Now every gaming forum that still exists is overrun by
s and the sites are basically unusable because of the dumbshit rules they impose. 
@EliteBuckBreaker can confirm what happened to smogon over the years with me
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Reddit is still a forum and honestly Reddit's (and rDrama's
) system of having comment conversations nested under a parent comment is better than classic forums where it's just one comment after another and you end up with just a few spergy conversations clogging up entire pages.
It's not the system's fault the community turned into a railyard. Reddit's only conceptual problem was allowing downmarseys to hide content and rDrama fixed that.
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Classic forum thread organisation with reddit-style comment nesting is the best way to organise online communities imo.
Reddit/rdrama style vote-based frontpage/sorting is good for link-aggregator sites but suboptimal for classic forums, but nested comments are just objectively the best way in any circumstance. For forums or qyestions maybe with a quora-style way to pin the best answer directly to the question.
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Rdrama has a bump sorting feature
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Downmarseyd for disrespecting threads.
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Yeah it is but Reddit removed the barriers to entry that sites like gaf etc had. You suddenly only need one account to discuss pretty much everything vs the oldstrag with 70 different forum accounts. Removing barriers to entry attracts normies and summerstrags which is why the internet shit itself around ten years ago lol.
The system is flawed: it works if you are a normal person. But the problem is that trains aren't normal people; they will shit up any community they can because they have no lives outside of the internet so they will inevitably overtake the “normal person” type users
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As if reddit and the like aren't. (and you're wrong anyway, my beloved RPGCodex forums chud along just fine
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Idk what that is so you're probably safe tbh
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Here's a taste (comment about BG3)
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I miss the old casual racism and slur dropping. Back when it wasnt even a political statement or related to the culture war, but just an insult. It was kinda comfy in a weird way
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Trans lives matter
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Burning
the library of Alexandria 
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