Comment on Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server
who@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
A flimsy band-aid over the real problems:
- Locking an open-source project’s community behind a corporation’s private service & license terms.
- Using a real-time chat platform for long-lived information storage.
ifmu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed. But it’s a good intermediate step.
dustyData@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s not. It’s not even a bandaid. Answeroverflow has a bad indexer and the search is useless. In my experience it produces no information of value whatsoever because all it throws back are messages devoid of context unless you read hundreds of lines of some randos conversation. God forbid the conversation lasted several days, you are better off asking chat again.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 3 weeks ago
It’s an intermediate step, but M t a good one.
If you’re indexing the content anyway, move it to a forum since it’s the same amount of work. Indexing inside Discord is just wasted hours as more and more items will continue to pile up.
Discord is absolute trash for this type of thing, and when intermediate steps are likely the same amount of work as migrating your community, why bother other than the claim of “it’s where people are already”?