Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked

amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Discord became big because of the seamless audio / video / screen sharing. Forums are not even in the same stratosphere.

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  • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i know, but for casual conversations and banter and a place where to store some knowledge about some topics forums were awesome.

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    • baatliwala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Forums work for knowledge storage, but for casual banter real time conversations trump everything

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      • sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeah, forums are cool but I remember changing to another medium like MSN Messenger to do real time conversations

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    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yea… Forums were (are) great for something that Discord isn’t great at…

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was so great, people ditched it immediately the second any alternative arrived.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean the masses are pretty fucking stupid and I don’t think following them is a good strategy for life.

    Also, reddit was and somehow still is pretty popular and stack exchange is being killed by AI not discord, so that’s not really accurate anyways.

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  • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Discord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It’s not search indexable or archivable. It’s more or less a memory hole.

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    • Creegz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Discord is a communications platform with tacked on features that resemble forums mostly as a means of organization. It’s not a KB or repository under any circumstances outside of misuse, so why would it have to be good at being searched/indexed?

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      • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Because not everything is a bug. People frequently want help and having a searchable place for past discussions it is helpful. Also this was in response to people complaining about forums and implying what came after is better so misuse is very much relevant here. Every modding community and a lot of other dev groups use discord for everything and it is from experience a trainwreck.

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good

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      • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence “search indexable”

        I’m not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.

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      • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Back when Google was a decent search engine you could just search “something site:someforum.com” since the built in search was so ass

        Something Reddit has in common with old forums

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  • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    maybe you are right. i think people just forgot about it because of all the noise and because all these new platforms force bad habits. just imagine if those platforms didn’t exist where would openai and anthropic be without all that stackexchange/stackoverflow data scraping.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They slowly ditched better services for convenience. The account/login struggle is the barrier to entry that myspace/facebook/discord “solved”. A unique login for each forum, a different set of rules between each, some auto-deletion of supposedly inactive accounts, no photo hosting capability until death bed, yet another set of credentials for the latest photo host, and so on. Nothing was immediate because it took time to build the replacement communities and libraries. The problem is, it took years to realize how inaccessible the information became.

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    • Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If the old service is less convenient that fucking Discord, it’s not better.
      The information is as inaccessible now, just in different ways.
      We never had a good solution. We had different bad solutions, each bad in it’s unique way.

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The old bulletins of the pre2000s.

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  • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    oh yeah!

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• OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I just set up mybb board a few weeks ago for old times sake. Brought back so many memories.

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