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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'd argue discord is even worse.

[–] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 30 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, because it's not a forum.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's cool in principle, but what if I actually want help?

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...

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Eiri@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

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)

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

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!

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

username checks out

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

discord requires a phone number to create an account. hard pass.

[–] avieshek@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Most toxic moderators of large subreddits does come from discord.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Oh definitely. At least Reddit can be searched (let's see for how long though)

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

That's an adult themed subreddit. You'll need to sign in on the app thanks!

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

At least Reddit can be searched by google or on site^1,2,3^

1 terms and conditions do apply
2 you need an account for some subreddits
3 you also need the app for some subreddits

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

That's not exactly true anymore. Reddit has deindexed itself.

[–] expr@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a toss up, for me. Both managed to capture all discussion on major open source projects.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I feel dirty for even saying this....

Reddit allows site wide search, and recently contracted with Google to make their content accessible. Also old reddit content is searchable and thread based conversations can be followed.

Discord is just a vast collection of independent black holes that gobble up information and data while its users collectively yell into the void of chat channels.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If you're looking for a discussion board and end up in a chat room, of course you'll be disappointed. That one's on the user, not the service.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's just that devs of games guide everyone there and try and shoehorn it in. I don't know how or why devs do this.. just run your own forum with a chat module.

Just say no. I don't join any discord groups for crap like that, if it's not on some public wiki, I don't bother. Most games don't need a community anyway, if I can't find one readily available, I'll enjoy it for what it is and move on to the next one.