For me it was replacement for Skype when it became shit in 2016
comador@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bye bye Discord, you were never that good to begin with anyway.
anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
comador@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Bye bye Discord, you were never that good to begin with anyway.
For me it was replacement for Skype when it became shit in 2016
51dusty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I will never understand the move from forums to discord. when discord is the only way to get assistance, I go find another product.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Discord is terrible for assistance.
Search is ineffective, you have to actually fight the UI to go back to older messages, depending on the device there are still somehow cases in which you can’t go back to the beginning of a thread.
Oh, you’re trying to scroll down through old posts? Let me suddenly refresh the list for no reason and bring you back to the most recent ones. Everything past the third screen might as well not exist anymore.
And of course, there is the slight problem of every useful info written there being completely invisible to the rest of the internet.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What amazes me is how often there are a bunch of sweaty nerds in the chat willing to answer every lazy-ass question known to man almost immediately.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
You’re booming. Discord search is fine but you dont even need to search. Seeking assistance is easy > join post > get notified when someone answers you.
Compared to forums where you have to create and account post an introduction then deep dive on the forum to make sure your question hasnt been asked before then write up s big detailed post only for the mod to remove your post because it was in the wrong place.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 1 month ago
The point is the first step in getting assistance is checking you’re not asking something that has been solved one hundred times before.
And you don’t even need to be registered to do that in a forum. in fact you don’t even need to know the forum exists, because search engines can find them for you.
You’re just counting on people having nothing else to do than help people by repeating the same basic stuff forever.
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat
Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Maybe I’m stupid or something, but I’ve always found Discord complicated as hell to use for anything whereas Vent is simple af
victorz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s easier to set up than a forum. I suppose. But messier.
A forum is much better suited for the purpose a lot of people are using Discord for.
They should be using Discord for voice chat and streaming, that’s what it’s good at. Use a fairly tool for what it does well. Not for what it does poorly.