# Do you think the upcoming Discord age verification could spawn new Discourse communites?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-think-the-upcoming-discord-age-verification-could-spawn-new-discourse-communites/395623
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**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-think-the-upcoming-discord-age-verification-could-spawn-new-discourse-communites/395623 "2026-02-10T03:07:11Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2026, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-think-the-upcoming-discord-age-verification-could-spawn-new-discourse-communites/395623/14 "2026-02-10T14:50:28Z")

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> [@Ed\_S](#):
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> Maybe most Discourse instances don’t use it much? (It’s not enabled on mine.)

Yeah this is the case as far as we can see… not all sites have it enabled, and most sites that have it enabled use it at a pretty low volume (though there are a small number of sites that use it quite a lot).

I don’t think there are many (any?) cases where chat is being used primarily, so it’s not unusual that we’re still considered a forum first.

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