How can we practice Matthew 18:15 in a public forum?
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Whether a person hurts our feelings is a different matter than whether that person has sinned against us. For example, my doctor might tell me I am overweight. In that case, my doctor would be acting lovingly toward me. If my feelings are hurt, then I am the one with the hard heart in that example.
Therefore my counsel is to be especially careful in asking for repentence from someone who has hurt your feelings.
Otherwise, my thought is that there is always a way to ask for private communication. It may be the case that private communication cannot be accomplished immediately, so you may have to employ patience. Suppose, for example that you are in a huge auditorium and a public speaker bears false witness against you (that being a sin from Exodus 20-23, the Ten Commandments and their sentencing rules).
I don't think you should stand up in that public forum and proclaim, "I would like to speak with you privately!" Entertaining the thought of that action leads one to think it might be inappropriate per the instructions from Matthew 18:15. If you agree, you might instead contact the public speaker by postal mail, waiting many days to receive any reply. You won't get the pleasure of an immediate retraction, and you may therefore have to suffer embarrassment during your period of patiently reaching out to the public speaker. That seems OK.
On this SE, you could ask a person to contact you using the comment system, with a message along the lines of, "Brother, I would like to email with you privately concerning something you've written here. Would you please email me at xxx -at- yyy.zzz?"
I would suggest that you then exchange phone numbers and not use email to settle your difference.
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