Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community - Orbit

Use Slack if…

Use Discord if…

You have enough community members for chat to be counterproductive.

Slack offers no real tooling for moderation. It’s specifically designed for workplaces, and they don’t appear interested in building features for moderation.

You need unlimited message history.

Making users sign up for yet-another-Slack group is a concern.

Synchronous communication isn’t important, for example, if your community is distributed across many time zones.

Integrations and bots are less important.

Many community members will likely have similar questions or issues, and you’d like to point them to a library of common answers