There used to be an addon my guild used in BC (the first one) called GuildBB.
In spite of all the challenges an in-game forum faces it worked quite well at the time.
For some things it was superior to a website forum, in that the challenge of getting players to create an account > apply > visit a forum is at the very least comparable if not greater than the resistance some players have to installing addons, but after that barrier was overcome they access the in-game forum the same way they access the game .. by logging in.
Nowadays I find it hard to see benefits over something like Discord which in large part has replaced traditional guild forums.
TL;DR: Possible? Yes, it has been done before. Is it likely someone will invest the effort? I think not.
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