I actually like their veggie options, so I don't rly get the comparison. Sure, young peeps rather go crazy since meat offers more tastier protein options, but those who are aged enough starts to see the benefit on veggie, even their veggie solutions taste way better nowadays (ofc those home-mades are much better options).


As for discord forums, you can also pin important stuff just like normal channels. And it also shares normal channel functionality such as @ mentions if need for a more direct approach, way broader use of emotes and even very easy to search GIFs. Even multimedia links can be viewed easily without needs of special formatting. Custom bots also easily implemented for much further QoL with majority of devs easily approachable for support. Overall, it is much easier to use and normal forum already aged so much, especially this forum, with posts sometimes doubles spaces between paragraphs, very limited emote, broken multimedia linking, & such. I do enjoyed forum since mid 90s, but they starts becoming relics of the past, with majority of them that I used to frequent already closed or rarely visited.


Reddit still survives coz they actually go beyond normal forum functionality as well where it can be customized. Sadly, some countries (like mine for example) did ban reddit, especially due to its sensitive topics & very easily to access adult stuff. While these can be remedied through VPN, personally not to comfy using them since VPN could also became another problem with it practically filter whatever uses peruse while using it.


Oh... and one of the most important thing: discord are way easier to use over their mobile apps. Normal forum sadly had to rely on normal browser, which can sometimes taxed mobile performance, not to mention their instability with semi frequent crashes. My phone felt hotter when I use browser, whether stock or 3rd pt browser like firefox/chrome/etc, & drain battery faster compared to browsing in discord, this also mainly due to browser has lots of background ads which constantly use net traffics hence making device hotter than usual. Another thing that is highly usable is their custom schedule maker & alerts, which is highly useful on mobile, complete with easy participant registration. In FF11 case, one of my LS groups usually got frequent weekly run schedules for Dyna-D, Omen, or Odyssey runs. And with their integrated voice chat, it is way easier to manage runs, some games like FF14 has it's own integrated overlay display for voice chats, hence why playstation users been begging Sony to have discord integration as well.



Discord also has built-in stream feature, & there's been occasional times where I stream my FF11 there as well.


As of this moment, I have dozens of groups joined, with several from FF11 LS, their reddit version as well (which they did embrace discord as well). Ofc, number of FF11 related groups pale in comparison with FF14s or any other non-game related groups, probably nearing limit of groups I can join for free account. lol