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[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 26 points 1 year ago

Discord is a tough one, since those communities aren't open to search indexer and archiver crawls, losing that would extinguish a lot more of our collective knowledge.

Hopefully dedicated server teams branch to matrix or another more open platform.

[-] Black616Angel@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

Discord is like the worst source for knowledge anyones has ever used as such.

I regularly find myself searching for stuff where there is only a small community and when they use discord and you want to look something up, you can straight up look into the sourcecode because it helps just as much. It is really devastating to be in this situation and I would really like for people to just get rid of discord and use a real wiki or forum for this kind of stuff.

[-] bdiddy@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

lol dude this is flat out wrong. Being able to ask active communitites things is useful to a lot of people. Have you ever even heard of IRC?????

What do you think happened before google had everything indexed?

It's useful to chat it out with people sometimes especially when you are all collectively centered around a single topic.

I've learned mass amounts of things through IRC and often times they don't just give you the answer they give you clues to help you figure it out.

Discord will be similar for many people. It's not necessary to archive every last bit of information. It's OK to talk to real people who enjoy talking about said topic and letting them guide you real time.

[-] Moon@aiparadise.moe 4 points 1 year ago

For me, the problem is not discords real time chat functionality (e.g. like IRC).It's that communities are using it as their only source of information and getting rid of wiki pages and support forums.

There are many open source projects and communities whose documentation lives entirely in Discord. This makes finding information much harder as search engines don't have the information indexed so you resort to asking on chat and hoping someone replies or using Discord's horrible search functionality (it's very basic and has a poor UI)

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