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Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app

lupec@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Yeah, it really bugs me that it’s basically absorbed what used to be public forums and whatnot into its own proprietary bubble where search engines don’t reach while not even being a good fit for that kind of thing to begin with

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TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I like discord a lot for support groups for small projects where it’s about 50-100 ish people interested in it. But when a project grows and the server grows with it definitely becomes a struggle for people to look back at whats already been discussed so people keep asking the same questions over and over.

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- dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And there is so much idle chatter to scroll through. I shouldn’t have to scan through months of jokes and memes to get updated.
  
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- lupec@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Heck, even with a handful of people anything longer form feels like a chore. I’ve been the admin of a tiny friends only server for a good few years and even in there it feels hard to keep track sometimes when there’s more than a single laser focused topic.
  
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  - TwanHE@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s a moderation issue. The servers I have in have channels per topic and quite aggressively redirect any offtopic convo’s into the General Chat.
    
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Tosti@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And every gamer and his dog have their own, so communities are adhoc and lackluster. It does the opposite of what forums used to do.

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- hushable@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  for real, my local rhythm games community is split among 3 different servers (that I know of) organising meet ups is a challenge nowadays
  
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StraightArrow@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A lot of people kept trying to tell me Discord was the new Reddit and a new ultimate messenger type software. I tried it a bit and did not find it lacking on both sides.

Perhaps it will swallow the rest of the world, but I’m happy with Lemmy and other messengers.

I’ll give it another go from time to time

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- lupec@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Imo it’s decent at what it set out to be: user friendly, painless realtime chatting, with some voice/video calling to top it up. That said, they keep adding questionable bloat to try and upsell Nitro subs so honestly I can only see it worsening as time goes on.
  
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