I don’t know about the advantages of discord, but this forum could be used in any browser but discord is additive application and I personally don’t use it
Discord is a really solid way for quick communication. There are several makers that use it for this, some support, and overall just community building. When COVID-19, it seems that it made a leap from just gamers and Gen Z to much older and tech aware folks. Just my two cents.
I might be wrong, but I think this is a Discourse forum. As far as site forums, Discourse is fairly cool. The bot onboarding and ‘leveling up’ is certainly unique.