Facebook Has Launched a New App Focused on Groups and it's Called Forum

Without any fanfare or hype, Facebook released, "Forum." It is a standalone app that looks and works a lot like Reddit, but for Facebook groups. You do still need a Facebook account, but it is a nice way to access any Facebook groups you are in without having to use a browser or the Facebook app itself. It makes a little feed of things you might find interesting from your various groups, as well as--sigh--having a bunch of built-in AI features designed to assist you in discovering new groups by chatting with the little bot-character. Facebook did have a standalone group app, which it killed in 2017 ("Groups,"), but this time the idea here seems to be going hard on mirroring Reddit and having a bunch of AI filler due to that being the new, "Hot," thing in apps.I will say the design is nice, probably because everything about how this looks reminds me so much of Reddit, but with more blue-ish colors instead of reds and oranges. As I said, you need to have a Facebook account to use this,…