Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything?

• Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the point is you can’t put a search term into a search engine and get results from some random Discord. No body is going to go trawling through Discords to then use the search function to potentially find information from it. Now, if chats were somehow archived and could then be searchable, different story, but I don’t think that’s what people using Discord want from Discord.

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  • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yeah, this is a problem. But in practice i found that if your searching for one niche problem and your only lead is discord, the people there are going to be kind and help.

    I know the pain on having to join something’s discord to get info, but it’s usually fast after I join.

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    • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But the bigger issue appears when you don’t have a clear place to go. It’s like we’ve gone back to before written records were common. Once that server goes and the people scatter, that information might as well never have existed. 5 years after Discord disappears, the only knowledge people will be able to find of it will be a handful of old messages complaining about some dude who scammed a bunch of people with low quality iron Doge coin.

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      • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I get it, it is a problem. But I just wanted to up the mood by saying that “you can get the info”. ig I just made ppl mad :/

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can see the content, but it isn’t categorized, tagged or organized in any way. If you’re looking for some specific information but you don’t know which server/channel it was discussed on, you’ll never find it.

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  • AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I can’t stand discord. Impossible to find anything, constantly feel like I’ve joined a conversation they had been in progress for months so have to scroll up ages to get any sort of context.

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    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t engage socially in random Discord servers, I’m almost certainly just there for an FAQ, to ask a question, or to use Discord’s- pretty decent- search function to find someone who’s had whatever issue I’m having before.

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• ax_the_dragon@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sidebar from someone who is probrbly just to old to know: How would I go about finding discords that are relevant to my intrests? I am a member on a few servers, but the discovery was always the other way around: I found the invite-link on a website/community that dealt with the topic I was intrested in.

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