Yeah, that is exactly the problem. When communities move to Discord, discussion between highly-involved individuals on a subject moves to a completely private place and can be purged at a moment’s notice.
I’ve used it mostly to chat between friend groups so that makes sense to me, but I don’t like having to join Discord communities because of this as well.
@Rentlar yeah. I use it that way too. But I think discord is as useful a “knowledge store” as iMessage. I mean, nobody would think of iMessage like a knowledge store. I joined an open source thing I bought of a kickstarter-like site. They had no FAQ. No wiki. Just “join our discord”. So every technical question was either buried in random chat, or pinned at the top of the “general” channel. Terrible way to support users.
Yeah. Discord ist just slack with somewhat better UX and more tracking. But chat history is among the worst ways to access past knowledge. It’s just so lost.
People rarely think about that…
For sharing memes, this is fine. But for many other things, this isn’t.
@Rentlar when information is not open to indexing and search, I don’t think it qualifies as knowledge. I hate that aspect of discord
Yeah, that is exactly the problem. When communities move to Discord, discussion between highly-involved individuals on a subject moves to a completely private place and can be purged at a moment’s notice.
I’ve used it mostly to chat between friend groups so that makes sense to me, but I don’t like having to join Discord communities because of this as well.
@Rentlar yeah. I use it that way too. But I think discord is as useful a “knowledge store” as iMessage. I mean, nobody would think of iMessage like a knowledge store. I joined an open source thing I bought of a kickstarter-like site. They had no FAQ. No wiki. Just “join our discord”. So every technical question was either buried in random chat, or pinned at the top of the “general” channel. Terrible way to support users.
The amount of Discord communities that are really just a mishmash of stickies and google docs is absurd.
Yeah. Discord ist just slack with somewhat better UX and more tracking. But chat history is among the worst ways to access past knowledge. It’s just so lost.
People rarely think about that…
For sharing memes, this is fine. But for many other things, this isn’t.