After collecting all the feedbacks from the Rocket.chat trial run, that can be found in this blog post, we decided to slightly change our approach looking for a new home for our safe and cozy community, away from Discord, making the community directly invested in the choice.
What emerged is that it''s increasingly clear that a lot of the Discord alternatives whilst very promising are just not quite ready yet and need more time to bake in various different ways. Put simply, all of them have trade offs and drawbacks unique to each. Discourse was a big hit with the community and it was with the staff too.
So we decided to shift our focus to Discourse, but why?
For transparency, here’s The Gamers' Tavern’s monthly report for February 2026.
For transparency, here’s The Gamers' Tavern’s monthly report for January 2026.
Hey everyone,
after using Rocket.chat for a few days we summarised the feedback from the community and our administrative feedback for ease of reading and to let us retrieve them later during the next test run(s).
Hey everyone!
A week and some more has passed since we announced the grand opening of our Discourse instance and we collected all of the precious feedbacks from the community, you can read about them in this post
Having said that, we wanted to let you know that soon we will start setting up Rocket.chat for our next test run.
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we’re approaching the end of the Discourse trial, as we originally discussed in The first alternative: Discourse.
We asked the users in the community their feedback and summarised them for ease of reading and to let us retrieve them later during the next test run(s).
Following the previous post, having considered the alternatives proposed in the community (on Discord, oh the irony), we decided to fashion a few demos for the community to use and test, to allow us all to decide together which Discord alternative to pick.
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As you may know, Discord recently dropped the age verification bomb (more context here)
Needless to say, we really, really don’t like this. It doesn’t align with our values and interests in keeping users safe, private and secure.
For transparency, here’s The Gamers' Tavern’s monthly report for December 2025.
For transparency, here’s The Gamers' Tavern’s monthly report for November 2025.