Yeah. I worry about how many things are moving into Discord. They are giving so much away for free right now that it stifling competition. Eventually they will need to turn a profit and, with competition reduced, they can get real shitty with it.
Unless someone linked to something.
I have often found old forum posts related to some problem I have only to find the link to the suggested solution broken.
True, but at least you could try to waybackmachine it, while discord is very often gated behind registration + phone verification and is not as easy to find the info you need
I think that Discord’s way worse. Not only it centralizes information, but also presents it in a unreadable way, and hides it from Google.
On Discord I never got a question answered. It just gets added to the list, then gets pushed out after a few seconds and it’s gone. It’s really bad. Imagine telling someone 10 years ago that most of discussion online would happen in private Skype group chats.
On Reddit there at least was a chance someone would answer your question after a few days.
Between Reddit and Discord I don’t know who did more damage. Forums were neat, especially because knowledge on it was permanent
Yeah. I worry about how many things are moving into Discord. They are giving so much away for free right now that it stifling competition. Eventually they will need to turn a profit and, with competition reduced, they can get real shitty with it.
Unless someone linked to something.
I have often found old forum posts related to some problem I have only to find the link to the suggested solution broken.
True, but at least you could try to waybackmachine it, while discord is very often gated behind registration + phone verification and is not as easy to find the info you need
I think that Discord’s way worse. Not only it centralizes information, but also presents it in a unreadable way, and hides it from Google.
On Discord I never got a question answered. It just gets added to the list, then gets pushed out after a few seconds and it’s gone. It’s really bad. Imagine telling someone 10 years ago that most of discussion online would happen in private Skype group chats.
On Reddit there at least was a chance someone would answer your question after a few days.