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Sadly, oftentimes, Forums are replaced by discord, despite... how different those are.
And, discord is inferior in so many ways. Not only you can't easily search for the content, you also need an account on centralized proprietary software, that also is quite resource heavy. Not to mention the privacy concerns.
Discord servers are also closed communities which makes it impossible to search for info through search engine
Yep. It is a bit funny, and sad to see how we are regressing, despite the technology going forward...
There are opt in bots in deveopment that allows individual servers to be indexed for search engine visibility
Which you just know nobody is going to bother with installing on their guild.
Not to mention how crappy the linux client is for linux users (I use one of those "thirdparty" clients myself, since the linux client is unbearable)
It's also very hard, if not impossible in some cases to find old conversations on discord, vs forums where they're mostly preserved for eternity.
trying to have an async conversation over time on Discord (and other IM solutions) is garbage compared to forum threads. While Discord added threading, in my experience not enough people have either adopted it ,or use it properly.
I'm hoping Discord is passing phase I can largely ignore. I will deal with it if I need to but it seems like world of proprietary crapware.
Software, services come and go, so maybe, soon enough...