discord is not a forum (even if they want it to be with the forum channels), its never been a good location to store information. That being said, its amazing for real time communication unlike forums. I hate that devs use it for FAQ and bug forms and stuff. I stopped reporting bugs if it requires me to join a discord.
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pycorax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If Discord is going to be abandoned by people, I wish we’d go back to proper forums that’s much more accessible and searchable. Continuing down this road is just going to lead to the continued burying of useful information behind these services.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
libra00@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Forums are just not great for real-time interaction like discord chat is, not to mention the integration of voice chat, video streaming, etc is just too convenient to give up without replacing it with something similar. I too wish discord/whatever replacement gets attention was more searchable and kept stuff long-term, but… if you want to post info that lasts, post it on lemme and link it on discord or whatever.
Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 1 day ago
True, but I can’t help having nostalgia for ye olde forum days.
libra00@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Fair enough.
I kinda don’t though. I quite enjoy real-time chat and voice and video with friends. It’s not like forums don’t exist at all anymore tho - you’re on one right now. I get my forum experience from places like reddit or lemmy, and I use them for very different things, so I’m glad both exist.
eronth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Reasonable, but you’d be fooling yourself to act as if forums will meaningfully replace Discord for most users.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Discord is more of a chat room than a forum though, lemmy is a federated alternative to forums.
randomblock1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Am I missing something? You’re on a forum right now, no?
pycorax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not nearly enough of them. Too many frameworks or libraries have their QnAs on Discord instead of a dedicated forum.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
We need both for different purposes. Discord is amazing for voice, video, and IM chatting. But forums are intended for a vastly different use-case. Forums are play-by-post. They’re meant for responding at your earliest convenience, not for talking to someone right now in real-time. The fact that so many people began using Discord as a forum replacement is a fucking travesty, because Discord is a fucking awful medium for forums… Not due to any fault of Discord’s, but because they’re completely different use cases.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think we just need to split roles again.
Discord did there best to be an all in one solution and we just need a return to real time chat and voice along with asynchronous communication like forums
SW42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Amen! I remember the good old days of speciality community forums based on VB or even phpBB or in some cases Woltlab. I miss the simpler times.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I think there’s room for both, as in the old days there was typically an IRC channel along side forums that was typically a secondary channel (but not always).
But yeah, forums would be ideal, preferably with federation support so there is no need to make an account with every single one.
PassingThrough@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Well, you see IRC and forums went together because they filled two different needs and we understood that back in the day.
IRC was for chatting, short, quick real time communication that would be lost to the ether as soon as you signed off, unless you had a bouncer or log bot.
Forums were for long information, be that long posts or posts that needed to endure for a long time. Sure you’d get some one liner responses to those posts, but forums were not at all instant like IRC. Though the information did stay much longer, and was much more searchable and organized.
Discord has spoiled us, being quick and chatty while also allowing for longer posts and being searchable. At least within the Discord client. Shoot they even added those “forum” channels to replicate the old forum feel. But real time.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i wouldn’t say discord “spoiled” us by trying to reinvent forums, i’d say it unnecessarily blurred the lines. classic case of feature creep.