Where should I put my game's discussion forum? Steam? TIGSource? Reddit? My own site?
(For more details, here's a Reddit post with the same question that I just posted. https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/1dobbox/question_where_should_i_put_my_games_discussion/ I'm too lazy to make it into a thread here on Mastodon, sorry.)
@filiph I think a discourse forum could be the 'preferred' medium with a reddit/discord alternative for people who don't want to make yet another account or just want a quick answer.
But while this sounds good I think the reddit/discord alternative would end up becoming the main discussion hub simply because the average user wouldn't want to go through the hurdles of signing up and keeping track of a dedicated forum site no matter how better the UX is.
@arnav Yeah, you're probably right. Once I find options, people will understandably go with the lowest friction.
@filiph Own Discourse is the way to go. If you can generate some genuine activity it'll be a SEO gold mine in the comming years. I see the big jump in Discourses we use (like diskutuj.digital) from Google clicks starting this april.
My guess is this is a shift from AI generated copy on SEO websites and from centralized social platforms.