I hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good
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carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoDiscord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It’s not search indexable or archivable. It’s more or less a memory hole.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 months ago
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 months 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.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not denying that it’s shit, I don’t know anyone who’s actually happy with it. But old forums also weren’t built nicely.
The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the timecarpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months 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
Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Google didn’t remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet.
Creegz@lemmy.world 3 months 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 3 months 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.