# Improve Your Community Experience Using a DIY Community Health Check | Blog

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**Created:** [January 11, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-your-community-experience-using-a-diy-community-health-check-blog/214590 "2022-01-11T23:08:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimkleiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimkleiber/32/121814_2.png) [@jimkleiber](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jimkleiber)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improve-your-community-experience-using-a-diy-community-health-check-blog/214590/10 "2022-05-07T18:09:28Z")

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> [@Jagster](#):
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> Forums are relics from pre-facebook era.

I don’t think “forums” have to be relics of the pre-facebook era, because I agree that:

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> with a few clicks, [one can] launch a new topic, a **structured discussion** based off that chat message titled

For me, where I struggle with many Discourse forums is the focus on, or allowance of, long-form discussion. I know that there are settings to allow maximum characters per post, yet it seems that those settings are often set super high and the UI caters to longer form discussion.

I’m not saying there is anything inherently wrong with that, as I can like that discussions have topic limitations and no length limitations. I think for me, I just don’t think forums have to equal long length.

For example, Guilded, which is like Discord, has a forum channel type and I find the entries to end up being shorter. I also don’t know if they have strict limits on length but they tend to not be as long as sometimes on here…which can encourage me to engage more from a phone.

Sometimes I’ll see on here one paragraph and then a reply of a paragraph and then another reply of a paragraph and then someone replies with three pages of text (kinda like I’m doing here) and it can disrupt the flow. And also when I see that, I sometimes feel a heavier burden to reply because there’s so much in there.

So I’ll stop for now: does anyone set the max post length to a much shorter length? Do you also find that a very long reply can throw off the dynamics? Anything else?

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