You can see the content, but it isn’t categorized, tagged or organized in any way. If you’re looking for some specific information but you don’t know which server/channel it was discussed on, you’ll never find it.
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Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 months agoBut u can login to discord and if the room is public you can see the content. Even if ur logged into FB if ur not in the private group u can’t see the content.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 months ago
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I can’t stand discord. Impossible to find anything, constantly feel like I’ve joined a conversation they had been in progress for months so have to scroll up ages to get any sort of context.
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t engage socially in random Discord servers, I’m almost certainly just there for an FAQ, to ask a question, or to use Discord’s- pretty decent- search function to find someone who’s had whatever issue I’m having before.
ax_the_dragon@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Sidebar from someone who is probrbly just to old to know: How would I go about finding discords that are relevant to my intrests? I am a member on a few servers, but the discovery was always the other way around: I found the invite-link on a website/community that dealt with the topic I was intrested in.
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think the point is you can’t put a search term into a search engine and get results from some random Discord. No body is going to go trawling through Discords to then use the search function to potentially find information from it. Now, if chats were somehow archived and could then be searchable, different story, but I don’t think that’s what people using Discord want from Discord.
UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
yeah, this is a problem. But in practice i found that if your searching for one niche problem and your only lead is discord, the people there are going to be kind and help.
I know the pain on having to join something’s discord to get info, but it’s usually fast after I join.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
But the bigger issue appears when you don’t have a clear place to go. It’s like we’ve gone back to before written records were common. Once that server goes and the people scatter, that information might as well never have existed. 5 years after Discord disappears, the only knowledge people will be able to find of it will be a handful of old messages complaining about
some dude who scammed a bunch of people with low quality ironDoge coin.UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I get it, it is a problem. But I just wanted to up the mood by saying that “you can get the info”. ig I just made ppl mad :/