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Yeah I was hoping they would go to Discord or something.
Nah, Discord is really bad if you want to find actual information created by users.
They should either create something on Fediverse or go back to the good old Forum times.
I feel like I date myself every time I tell people I want to go back to forums. It's why I liked reddit so much, and prefer Kbin. Small threads on topics are so much easier to follow than a 3,000 message chat interaction with 200 different topics strewn together.
And they're in a good position to do that. People can't complain "but I dun wanna make an account" when they already need one to play the game.
Discord is by far the worst alternative. Not only is it worse than a reddit style forum, it has the same "eventually needs to make a profit" corporation ontop of it and when it goes to shit all the information there goes with it because unlike reddit Discord can't be archived.
Yep, I honestly don't know why it's popular outside of making voice chat parties with text / image sharing as a backup.
As a community communication tool, it's a big mess. Just a glorified version of IRC which is hard to follow and search. The lack of archiving just makes it that much worse.