Putting everything on discord makes information unsearchable via search engines, which is objectivily not great. This recent habit is contributing to killing the web.

On a more subjective note, I just don't like it. On the top of my head : Confusing interface, wont' shut up about nitro, requires a phone number.

[–] version_unsorted@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

https://www.answeroverflow.com/

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago

It's kind of stupid this even has to exist tbh

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand what this is, can you explain? Apologies if it's obvious.

[–] version_unsorted@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is a bot that these communities on discord can invite to specific channels that will index the discussion to provide a search engine interface. Ideally search engines could leverage the answeroverflow API to help people get access to the technical discussion that now happens in discord instead of forums or mailinglists which do come up in search engine results.

[–] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks!

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

also data collection

[–] s_s@lemmy.one -1 points 6 months ago

On the other hand, discord is a great way to help organize a community wiki.