Know that feeling

  • Purplexingg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Don’t worry, once discord succeeds in killing every forum ever, you won’t be able to find anything like this again!

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Discord is a poor replacement for forums. It’s like hearing every conversation in a nightclub all at once. IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and AOL Chat never killed forums, and I doubt Discord will either.

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        1 year ago

        I hope not. I don’t understand when people suggest discord as a replacement for forums or things like reddit. It’s not really the same thing at all.

        And that’s to say nothing of it being pretty targeted towards gamers and gamer culture. I am a gamer and don’t mind it but it’s a barrier to adoption for people who aren’t at all into that.

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            1 year ago

            I’m in the same boat. I at least sort of “understand” it if that makes sense? Like, it’s not my bag but I know about it and that makes it easier to ignore.

            But like…my wife is not at all a gamer. She goes to forums or reddit to follow hobby interests she has. Having a bunch of cringey leetspeak and gamer bro stuff is going to be off-putting to those types of people, and maybe enough to prevent them from adopting the platform at all.

            It certainly factored into our decision to use slack for our college friends group instead of discord.

            • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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              1 year ago

              Slack is also an easier interface and layout. Discord is pretty confusing the first time you open it. The UI is definitely discordant.

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        Slack kills me. A group of friends of mine from college use it to stayb in touch. Our instance has a dozen or so users, half of them mostly lurk to stay in the loop. For us active members it would definitely be worth paying 7.25/mo or whatever it is, but we don’t want to lock out the others who don’t really use it so often and they definitely wouldn’t pay for it (and some can’t really afford it).

        I wish they had a tier below Pro for personal use (we aren’t a business) that gave full post history and limited everything else and was maybe not per user billing but instead usage based. It’s such a great, intuitive platform and works perfectly for our group of friends except that you can’t go back to look at anything.

    • Captain Minnette@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The best discord support servers have a wiki they regularly update with the solutions they’ve helped people solve, though sometimes by just including them in their how-to guides. At least, that’s the case with certain console homebrew/modding communities.