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 1 day ago
We need to bring back the forum platforms. That is how communities looked and it was great
baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 day ago
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i know, but for casual conversations and banter and a place where to store some knowledge about some topics forums were awesome.
baatliwala@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Forums work for knowledge storage, but for casual banter real time conversations trump everything
sakuraba@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
yeah, forums are cool but I remember changing to another medium like MSN Messenger to do real time conversations
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Yea… Forums were (are) great for something that Discord isn’t great at…
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I just set up mybb board a few weeks ago for old times sake. Brought back so many memories.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The old bulletins of the pre2000s.
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 1 day ago
oh yeah!
Nalivai@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It was so great, people ditched it immediately the second any alternative arrived.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Discord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It’s not search indexable or archivable. It’s more or less a memory hole.
Creegz@lemmy.world 13 hours 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?
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 6 hours 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.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 15 hours 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.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 21 hours 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.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 13 hours 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.
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 22 hours 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.