Starting today, new support threads that are created on discord will be indexed and be easily findable with search engines thanks to Answer Overflow. Right now, existing threads are being indexed.
The dedicated community link is here: https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/812703221789097985
I think this is crazily important. My biggest issue with Discord is that they have become the default hubs for issues and fixes. Over days, weeks, months and years those fixes get buried and harder to find, but the worst offender is that they are unindexable by default.
Its lovely to see someone doing this. I wish everyone would do this.
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Maybe just make a fucking forum? Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place?
Agreed. Discord is a chatroom not a forum.
Discord is a superb chat room with voice chat and screen share.
Most of the userbase is too young to know forums exist.
It got popular because it’s excellent for gaming communities. Not for code base discussion.
Because its more than a bunch of posts, its voice comms and thats more useful. So find a platform that does both and maybe people change, maybe. More likely we will have to wait for IPO and enshitification before that happens.
Because stupid people use it, and unfortunately stupid people are most.