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

• lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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    • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean, I get it. If I’m working on something and hit a snag, posting in a forum where the response time may be measured in days or more until someone replies with further questions, to which I then reply at my earliest convenience and wait another day for a response, then have to see when I next have time to try the advice and hope that settles it…

      Well, I’d certainly prefer to get input right when I’m working on it, while I have the time and mindspace for it. In that light, maybe forums simply aren’t the best solution anymore, or at least not by themselves. But integrated chats have been tried before, haven’t they? What was wrong with them?

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