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Article claims the forums were expensive and difficult to maintain. I thing it more likely that Facebook groups are epopular because people are already there.

Discord has done an amazing job at convenience. It’s free, they have a rather generous API. The communities have created fantastic bots. But it’s important to remember discord isn’t a forum it’s a live chat. Two people having a live discussion is a very different thing than two people carefully curating their responses in a forum.

Reddit and Lemmy are curated knowledge repository wrapped in discourse. Which brings an advantage over old forums.

More or less I would argue that the article is missing convenience as a driving factor.

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Blaze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Edit: I poorly skimmed this article and mistook some of its points. This comment deserves no upvotes and I’ll circle back later and give some credible feedback.

Thank you for this constructive approach

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celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Discord has forums built in. I know everyone hates it when I mention it, but there is continuity on Discord and has been for several years now.

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- RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  discord forums are terrible though. it’s hardly an upgrade from a threads only channel
  
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- JamesFire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They’re not search engine indexable though.
  
  You can’t view it without logging in.
  
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- zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Behind a login screen. YOU HAVE TO GIVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER TO ACCESS IT.
  
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db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

More or less I would argue that the article is missing convenience as a driving factor.

Did you…uh…read the article?

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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Saying that I mentioned paragraphs from the actual article … yeah.
  
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  - db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    I’m not a researcher, but I was there from the start and I saw the same process play out multiple times in the old forums I used to be in. Accessibility and convenience won.
    
    …how?
    
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    linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m sitting here trying to figure out why you’re coming out on the attack so hard, it’s your own blog. That makes perfect sense.
    
    LLM? no, I skimmed it because it’s extremely long and very fluffy. I mistook some of the fluff, my apologies. I’ll go back and thoroughly read it when I have time later today and give you credible feedback. Off the cuff, I’d recommend you try to tame the writing down a little, you’re obviously very excited and feel strongly about the topic, but that doesn’t always translate to a good read for others.
    
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Discord has a bloody server limit which makes it impractical

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- celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, 500,000 users. Are you in servers that are hitting that max?
  
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  - Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, 100 servers
    
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- linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They also make it incredibly difficult to even pay for their service. I needed to fund one for work a few years ago It was a pain in the arse. I had to buy $200 worth of boost packs. Just give me a single line item premium server and be done with it.
  
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  - celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    What do you do for work that Discord was the viable option, even though it didn’t have the features you needed unless you dropped $200 in microtransactions?
    
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    linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    that Discord was the viable option, even though it didn’t have the features you needed unless you dropped $200 in microtransactions?
    
    It was a discord for a game.
    
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