# 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: ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2026, 1:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-think-the-upcoming-discord-age-verification-could-spawn-new-discourse-communites/395623/8 "2026-02-10T13:17:16Z")

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This just posted on Hacker News

> **[Score Breakdown - Discord Alternatives, Ranked](https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/#score-breakdown)**
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> I've been running a Discord server for about four and a half years now. When I started streaming during the pando, I had no idea that I would end up building a community. Hell, I'd never even used Discord before. I only knew what it was because I had...

~~Higher is better in the table~~  
Higher numeric scores are better in the table.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/8/d/c8d183286fc79ef96b2045319bd19e1f60b56f66.png)

In the Discourse section it notes

> **Best for:** anything but real-time chat, really.

I know that on the OpenAI forum the chat feature is used daily by those with access.

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