On the forums, people are generally nicer and more kind. It's more organized and you can fly your way around to topics you want easily.

Forum games don't vanish overnight, at least. You can continue them overtime instead of them mysteriously vanishing after 10 minutes. All you have to do it refresh the page, and you're updated on everything new! I honestly find it fun to skip back into the back of many folders within the forums and look on some old topics, like the first announcement. It's hard to believe they happened years ago.

Unlike the Cafe, there's no upvote/downvote buttons. These are often abused in the Cafe, whereas they don't even exist on the forums, so boom, problem solved before it's even happened. However, replies are slow, so if you're impatient.. *shrugs*.

The Cafe isn't very organized, and topics disappear quickly if nobody posts on them for like 5 minutes. However, replies are very quick, and you don't exactly need to "refresh" to get the new stuff. Well, topics, yeah, but like, you don't need to refresh to see a new message on a topic, just re-click it if the number of posts count is glowing yellow.

Although people aren't generally as nice (in behavior) compared to the forums. Arguments break out easily and can get out of control. If no moderators are online, it can get crazy, but depending on the server.