Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sure, but that’s not an argument for replacing Discord with forums. The two serve entirely different use cases, and should be treated like two entirely separate products.

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  • gloktawasright@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Isn’t it though? A forum wouldn’t do all the things discord does, but the argument is that trying to use discord for a forum was a mistake in the first place. So replacing discord with a forum and then a dedicated chatting app makes sense, no?

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I think we’re essentially saying the same thing in different ways. Yes, I 100% agree that forums should be separate from whatever the new Discord replacement ends up being.

      I was more arguing that we can’t only use forums to replace Discord, because the realtime communication aspect would be a different use case. I’ve seen lots of “lol just use forums” types of posts, which completely ignore the realtime side of things. There would still need to be some service to replace the realtime aspects that Discord does serve.

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      • gloktawasright@lemmy.world ⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Agreed. I think the fact that discord kind of does all the things is what made it attractive. But it’s not GOOD at the forum aspect, and it has its flaws for the other use cases as well.

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