Would Discourse meet all of these niche needs to be a video game community forum?

[Falco]

@simbleau you got some answers wrong above, here are some correct ones:

@simbleau

1- If I wanted to automatically generate a forum account tied to a game account

We have customers doing this, you just need a single API call to create the forum account from your game account system.

@simbleau

2- If I wanted to set a user’s OAUTH secret (2FA) to match a game account 2FA (external source)

In this case it’s easier to set the forum to use your game account system as the Identity Provider. You can implement the DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso) to allow for that.

@simbleau

4- If I wanted to revoke permissions or add them via API (Add/Remove player moderators)

Easily done via API.

@simbleau

3- If I wanted to add badges or titles to a user via API (Awarding players with ‘flair’ for player competitions)

Easily done via API too!

@simbleau

5- If I wanted to send out webhooks when a user gets an inbox message or notification (To send to my game server to forward as an ingame notification)

We have support for webhooks for the Notification event, totally doable without any customizations needed.

@simbleau

6- If I wanted to send out a webhook on a forum ban (to mute them from game servers too)

The “User Event” webhook covers this.

@simbleau

7- To ban someone via API or delete the user (if they get banned in game)

Also just an API call.

@simbleau

9 -Change a username via API (what they log in with, not notification emails, i.e. if they change their display name in game)

Doable, but it can be quite expensive if the user has many posts.