Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing

• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They probably don’t intentionally use it to store information so much as quickly and conveniently exchange answers and questions. Forums have evidently proven inadequate for that purpose, so unless people find a better solution and make it stick, the lesson sure won’t.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh but there’s a shit ton of documentation that’s only available on discord and that’s not searchable anywhere and that will just be wiped out of discord ever dies.

    Forums are the best for knowledge accumulation via user interactions, Reddit like platforms are second and then you’ve got whatever discord is and regular chat rooms…

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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh but there’s a shit ton of documentation that’s only available on discord and that’s not searchable anywhere and that will just be wiped out of discord ever dies.

      I absolutely agree. That’s part of the point I’m trying to make: The death of Discord might well cause those things to be lost. Hoping for it to crash and burn is counterproductive because thay will only do damage.

      Instead, we should figure out why people moved to Discord in the first place, because…

      Forums are the best for knowledge accumulation via user interactions

      …clearly, whatever makes forums “the best” isn’t enough. Then what is it that Discord does better? How can forums work to match it and entice people back?

      I don’t know. I’m not one of the people that preferred Discord and I can’t speak for them. But maybe we should listen first instead of wishing ill on them and hoping their favourite places die.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        People want instantaneous replies instead of having to wait like on forums. Steam still has forums and they’re active so clearly not everyone left, Reddit isn’t as good because of the lack of permanence (no bumping).

        I’m this case I’m very sorry but people just went for the instantaneous reward of chatting and disregarded what they were losing.

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