Trying to keep discussions language focused for now, but I agree it would be nice to have a place for more tangental or general topics such as culture and history.

I'd say the discussions have to be about Duolingo or about a specific language taught here because there are sections for this: Duolingo, Spanish, French and so on.

But it would be nice to have a forum with topic about anything we want to discuss. There could be sections for discussing anything in a specific language, that would be fun and useful.

With the current forum design I wouldn't recommend opening discussions for casual topics as those might drown discussions about the website. It would be nice to have a place where you can chat casually in the language that you are learning, although it could potentially be distracting.

It can be really nice, to talk about your favorite TV shows in another language and stuff.