There's certainly an order of priorities here, don't get me wrong, If anything, moving commfeed over to the forums, even if there wasn't an incoming flood of people, is an excellent idea in and of itself, and I am in complete support of it. I would say that the worries of such potential flood go beyond just a chaotic commfeed channel. Allow me to port over some (edited) excepts I wrote from that aforementioned conversation I had with 
BlueSignet a few days ago. You can give me your thoughts here, of course:
It very much a "hindsight is 2020" type of situation in that you have Kanewave 1.0 to reference and build off of. You're guaranteed to be getting 3 things:
- More unskilled writers
- More unskilled critics
- Way more "illiterate" readers
All these in tandem lead to a chain reaction:
- Newbies will come in with what most likely will be very flaccid drafts;
- With way more critics, they'll have a comically easy time getting the minimum amount of critiques, and in the excitement of reaching the bar, they'll post their page in quite the sad state;
- The higher amount of readers means there will be way more voters, well, voting, uncritically at that, thus even the worst of pages will have an easy time reaching the +10 minimum;
- You now have (a varying amount depending on the scale) bad pages staying on the site in spite of pre-existing contributors' wishes.
There are few points of difference with the original Kanewave, some in favour, some against:
- Quarantine is no longer playing a role in the process, and as such, people have way less time to dedicate to project like this one. Ideally this entails calmer waters for all involved.
- There now is an actually, at the very least, half-competent staff team lead by actually adults, themselves leading the actual project as a whole. Comparatively speaking, there current situation is way better than the past.
- The movie turns the Backrooms from a collection of, admittedly, niche collection of internet-based horror pieces to an IP. Seeing the numerical estimates for this movie, even if the movie sucks complete and utter ass, you're most likely gonna be dealing with more people than the amount we had to deal with way back in 2022. In this, I hope I'm wrong.
- The posting system in comparison, as merely a filtration system and nothing more, is a million times worse than the pure-greenlight system of back then. While it definitely was a pain to get a page on the site, there was a hard barrier there holding up the dam. Now? Free for all for everybody. That is not to say the current system should be changed, but it very much is a natural consequence of prioritising ideas of learning and growth for all.
I say all this, of course, but in practice, a mere move to the forums wouldn't actually solve anything — you obviously cannot just manifest people out of thin air to help out. I do, however, think a move to the forums as the primary method of contributing to the site would make it all way more manageable for all parties involved, or, at the very least, all parties involved in formal posting methods (the staff team and the GLMP).
General moderation, especially outside of commfeed, was nigh-impossible during Kanewave 1.0 — the amount of staff, which was higher than it currently is for a frame of reference, simply didn't suffice, to the point where any channel that was not one of the "main" channels for communication was basically neglected. 'Tis in the very nature of chatrooms, this, I'm sure you're aware.
A mixed approach then, to me, simply wouldn't be realistic under such similar conditions. That is not say it couldn't theoretically work — it is a sort of a Platonic Ideal in isolation —but I simply don't think it's viable as we currently are. Certainly a bit of a pessimistic outlook, but I think it's apt. If staff and the GLMP cannot handle the forums when there isn't any pressure on them, I sincerely doubt it would be any easier when there is.
Instinctually, one might default to just getting rid of the forums as a solution (and it would definitely be one less thing to think about), but that not only implies people, contributors that is, are already investing themselves in them to the point where they're genuinely taking up resources, but that the Discord server is not getting enough attention when it should be. In practice, that isn't what's happening, however. The place is fucking dead!
This is directed towards the staff team more than anything (which I'm hoping here, they're gonna view this post), but when knowing what is to come and the benefits that can be reaped by transitioning over to the forums (again, only in regards to contribution, not communal matters), I simply cannot fully get behind the idea of leaving it all on a Discord server of all things. To be completely and utterly blunt, it mostly boils down to "we've grown used to it, and it's pretty comfortable", which is true! But is that really enough a good enough reason? If the goal of the site is to grow and showcase better and better writing over time, to me, moving seems like the obvious choice. The others have made some quite excellent suggestions as to how that could be reasonably achieved while also incorporating the Discord side of things into it. Take note!
All this said though, I mentioned in my original post, even if forums become the "main thing", people should be allowed to handle matters of critique and greenlights in private Discord DMs should they wish to. Even more importantly than that, I think making a choice between the two should happen sooner rather later. The point is that there is lie taking place here, a false image being given to all coming in, when there shouldn't be one. If Discord ends up being chosen, I welcome the decision.
