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Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s an excellent chat program (except it’s pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn’t function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well yeah, because it’s not a forum.

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- Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s increasing taking up the role of one. And I’m sad about it.
  
  I might stop being sad if its forum features become more used and Discord massively improved discoverability, but for now it sucks for people googling problems.
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    My rule of thumb is, if it says, “Join our Discord,” I move on. I’ll only join a Discord if I want to discuss something, not if I want answers to questions.
    
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    zod000@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Same here, except I won’t go on Discord for discussion either. I really loath the platform. I’d even go back on the dumpster fire that is Telegram before I go back to Discord. Good thing IRC still exists.
    
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    Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    That’s cool in principle, but what if I actually want help?
    
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  - Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    On one hand we have to move away from Google. On the other hand information should be made available to people. Hopefully we are just in a transitional phase and this isn’t just reigning in a internet dark age.
    
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    Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Well I said Google but ideally that would be “a healthy market of several competing quality search engines”.
    
    Right now I think we only have Google and Bing. (Lots of alternatives like DuckDuckGo ultimately use Google I think)
    
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