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

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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: ![chapoi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chapoi/32/537252_2.png) [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-think-the-upcoming-discord-age-verification-could-spawn-new-discourse-communites/395623/19 "2026-02-10T16:56:30Z")

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> [@Canapin](#):
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> o configure an instance to the chat as the default communication feature.

This is not exactly that (since it locks-in on chat) but I’m still mentioning it here [GitHub - discourse/discourse-just-chat: A plugin that hides everything that isn't chat. · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-just-chat)

⚠ Not an official Discourse supported plugin – but could be interesting for some use cases

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