Yeah, that is exactly the problem. When communities move to Discord, discussion between highly-involved individuals on a subject moves to a completely private place and can be purged at a moment’s notice.
I’ve used it mostly to chat between friend groups so that makes sense to me, but I don’t like having to join Discord communities because of this as well.
@Rentlar yeah. I use it that way too. But I think discord is as useful a “knowledge store” as iMessage. I mean, nobody would think of iMessage like a knowledge store. I joined an open source thing I bought of a kickstarter-like site. They had no FAQ. No wiki. Just “join our discord”. So every technical question was either buried in random chat, or pinned at the top of the “general” channel. Terrible way to support users.
Yeah, that is exactly the problem. When communities move to Discord, discussion between highly-involved individuals on a subject moves to a completely private place and can be purged at a moment’s notice.
I’ve used it mostly to chat between friend groups so that makes sense to me, but I don’t like having to join Discord communities because of this as well.
@Rentlar yeah. I use it that way too. But I think discord is as useful a “knowledge store” as iMessage. I mean, nobody would think of iMessage like a knowledge store. I joined an open source thing I bought of a kickstarter-like site. They had no FAQ. No wiki. Just “join our discord”. So every technical question was either buried in random chat, or pinned at the top of the “general” channel. Terrible way to support users.
The amount of Discord communities that are really just a mishmash of stickies and google docs is absurd.