You may be underestimating its value. By the sounds of it, it seems like it would combine the best of both the chat worlds (Discord, Slack, etc) as well as a forum.
You get the friction-free experience of a chat when it comes to UX, but with the advantages of a forum such as threads, searchability (being indexed by search engines), etc.
This would be a really nice alternative to the current status quo where it's either Discourse (nice as a forum, but not ideal as a real-time chat) or Discord/Slack/IRC (nice as a chat, but siloed and not searchable).
You get the friction-free experience of a chat when it comes to UX, but with the advantages of a forum such as threads, searchability (being indexed by search engines), etc.
This would be a really nice alternative to the current status quo where it's either Discourse (nice as a forum, but not ideal as a real-time chat) or Discord/Slack/IRC (nice as a chat, but siloed and not searchable).