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      2 months ago

      It’s an excellent chat program (except it’s pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn’t function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.

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          It’s increasing taking up the role of one. And I’m sad about it.

          I might stop being sad if its forum features become more used and Discord massively improved discoverability, but for now it sucks for people googling problems.

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            My rule of thumb is, if it says, “Join our Discord,” I move on. I’ll only join a Discord if I want to discuss something, not if I want answers to questions.

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              Same here, except I won’t go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I’d even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.

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                I just look up YT videos or find a wiki, and 90% of the time I can find my answer that way. It’s a lot nicer than trying to figure out where they stuck something on Discord…

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            On one hand we have to move away from Google. On the other hand information should be made available to people. Hopefully we are just in a transitional phase and this isn’t just reigning in a internet dark age.

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              Well I said Google but ideally that would be “a healthy market of several competing quality search engines”.

              Right now I think we only have Google and Bing. (Lots of alternatives like DuckDuckGo ultimately use Google I think)

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      Yeah… shooting some nonsense back and forth. But game devs that shoehorn stuff into discord making everything objectively worse while making everything unfindable… it drives me nuts!