Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"

• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What exactly is wrong with them, in your opinion? A game I play uses a Discord forum channel for their bug reports, and it seems to support all the features I'd need out of a forum: sorting options (date posted vs most recent/"bumped" threads), search, chronological comments, tags, media support...

  The only real issue I see with Discord forums is that they're not public, so you can't view them without having a Discord account and joining the server. But as far as functioning as a traditional web forum, they seem to check all the boxes.

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  • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they’re not public

    This is a huge issue, honestly. Discord’s search function is awful and you have to find the right server before you can even try to find the information. Any standard search engine can find a post in a classic forum.

    Also, scrolling through giant pages of constantly updating chatter is a miserable interface. Split it up into pages!

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