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Discord sucks and servers are generally filled unhelpful people. (hexbear.net)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've yet to find one I actually enjoyed my time on. I'm better off getting questions answered by just broadcasting in global chat in-game. The dorks and power-moderators of the channels for games are the same types of dweebs who used to lock forum posts asking questions with "lol search function n00b, LOCKED AND BANNED".

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

retvrn to tradition

but yeah discord & discord-likes are great for casual shooting the shit with friends but hopeless for anything informative. It's absolutely bizarre to see existing communities abandoning forums and wikis for this when it's so obviously inferior for distribution of information.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

It's not bazarr so much from one perspective.

The biggest problems in forums are lack of engagement which leads to abandonment. That is why a lot of forums are shutting down. People are so used to centralization.

Discord users get notifications on a single platform for topics they subscribe to and since it is "always online" for many people when they boot their computers, engagement stays pretty high because of the low effort required. On the other hand, I have asked around 15 questions in various discord support servers and gotten 2 replies ever, so not that much different than forums...

Of course this leads to tons of information lost & locked away on a terrible deepweb platform. At least there are threads now so you don't have to search through random comments to see who replied to a question you searched...

Discord is horrible as a forum replacement, but I do see why it is replacing many forums from a theoretical engagement perspective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

doesn't actually work for this either

so I see why someone might.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Maybe we need an app that can aggregate all your disparate phpbb2 memberships and notifications. Beeper-style.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed, it's so weird. Discord could never be as efficient at conveying information as a GameFaqs guide from the early 2000s.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I maintain a gamefaqs account from 2004 solely so I can say "I have a gamefaqs account older than you" to de facto win any online argument

I actually had an older one that got banned in 2004 for talking about how to use a glitch in SOCOM2. Gamefaqs does not want all the facts getting out...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

Well, perhaps the question just wasn't asked frequently enough.