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cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 18 hours agoWhat’s wrong with good old fashioned data base backed message forums? There are so many implementations available, I’m sure many are FOSS, and I’m sure there’s managed solutions as well. It’s a mature, tested, rock solid reliable technology that has existed pretty much since the inception of the internet, and can be easily incorporated into other tools and workflows - because there is 40+ years of development work with the concept.
Seriously, why?
Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
Forums are great for being forums. Real-time instant messaging, voice chat, video chat, and screen sharing are all a very different use-case. They’re two entirely separate products, and comparing them is apples and oranges. People are looking to replace Discord with Discord-like services, because forums don’t fucking do what Discord does. The big problem (and the reason everyone seems to compare the two) is because Discord started eating forums, as companies realized it was easier to create a Discord server instead of creating (and hosting, and maintaining) a support forum.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
It is not comparing apples to oranges, there are many companies that use Discord as a direct replacement to help forums or product wikis.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
He is talking about forums because the main issue with discord is that it’s cut from the rest of the internet so nothing is indexed and a lot of platforms and services use discord like a forum (it isn’t).
No one wants our conversations indexed, and discord shouldn’t be a forum.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world 10 minutes ago
Exactly my point - And public help forums should be indexed, and should not be on Discord.