For someone in Russia, the impermanence might be a desirable feature. I mean, there’s always still IRC but Discord is all the rage these days.
Get off my lawn.
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joyjoy@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Since when is Discord a proper place to get information? On larger servers, anything you type is gone forever after an hour due to the volume is messages.
ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
It’s not even properly impermanent because somebody else can just archive everything, ironically giving them better overview than the actual members themselves
flames5123@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do you not know how to properly search in discord? Sure forums are better but a message in discord isn’t “gone forever” if you’re searching. It’s a pretty fast to search too, which is an insanely impressive feat due to the sheer amount of messages.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah but the searching also kind of sucks for detailed information.
If only we had these things called search engines that indexed websites that had information on them.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
Discord’s search is a joke. You search for specific words and you get a load of results that are… just not that word, at all
joyjoy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Sure, but you also have to know to search for it.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The search bar is at the top of the screen. Click inside of it and it shows you what you can search. It’s dirt easy.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Search is great for discovering known unknowns. Not so much for unknown unknowns.
ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Discord search is only really useful if you already know what the message says
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nothing is gone forever on Discord. Maybe for you, but not for them. They’re literally tracking everything
Damaskox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When I don’t find information through a search engine, I go asking it from people themselves.
Discord is an easy solution for me to find this information at that point. Much easier than generating yet another user account in a website I might use once in my life, while I already use discord a lot. By the way - you can search for messages you have sent and for messages that were pointed directly to you. Makes delving into old conversations much easier.
Of course Telegram and other services like that can help too.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Its not.
but people still insist on using it as a information store house. Much to the detriment of everyone.