there are some good reasons for a forum.

For example, if i'm looking for good counters for alric. i'm pretty lost at the moment. i would search for alric in a forum, then i would see all the topics and could read about it directly.
sometimes really good calculations etc are shown here. if you weren't there when it was written, you'll probably never see it.
which could be quite intriguing especially now with land.
we have pretty smart arranged people in the community who will make very good calculations and guides.
but probably hardly anyone will see them. because either you have to be in the right discord channel at the time it is written or you have to follow the right person on peakd who will share it and then you have to save it.

Sometimes I see really good posts on Discord or Peakd and people who don't follow the person don't see that post and it just disappears from the scene and a forum would be a good archive. I think it's a shame that a lot of good posts aren't seen by anyone because the people who write them don't have followers and none of the popular people share the post.

which in my opinion also leads to quite a problem for a decentralized system. we have a handful of people who have a significant reach. things that are not shared by them will probably never be seen by most people. this creates the problem that these people have the power to determine what opinion is spread and what is not!

e.g. there was once @rosiew . they had made really good town hall summarys. in every respect better than those shared by splinterlands and above all much faster. those were mostly published directly after the town hall and with those shared by splinterlands you can sometimes wait 3 days and then important details are missing. nevertheless they didn't share those of rosiew. which clearly shows that there are already quite monopoly positions here. and it's not really about quality here...
here is an example @rosiew/splinterlands-town-hall-september-26-2022

and thank you for the work @oaaguy 😘