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[-] general_kitten@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 40 points 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.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Well yeah, because it's not a forum.

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

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 2 months ago

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 2 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 2 months ago

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

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

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...

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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

username checks out

[-] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

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

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