Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDiscord Alternatives, Rankedtaggart-tech.comexternal-linkmessage-square169fedilinkarrow-up1586arrow-down125
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minus-squarecarpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 hours agoDiscord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It’s not search indexable or archivable. It’s more or less a memory hole.
minus-squareCreegz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoDiscord is a communications platform with tacked on features that resemble forums mostly as a means of organization. It’s not a KB or repository under any circumstances outside of misuse, so why would it have to be good at being searched/indexed?
minus-squareNalivai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·6 hours agoI hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good
minus-squarecarpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 hours agoMost decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence “search indexable” I’m not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.
Discord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It’s not search indexable or archivable. It’s more or less a memory hole.
Discord is a communications platform with tacked on features that resemble forums mostly as a means of organization. It’s not a KB or repository under any circumstances outside of misuse, so why would it have to be good at being searched/indexed?
I hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good
Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence “search indexable”
I’m not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.