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I am personally very excited for this. While yes, we have gone full circle (as I'm sure many will point out), I do think this was missing from Discord for various use-cases. I'm excited to see servers I'm in evolve with this new feature.
And ended with better interface and proprietary lock-in
I wonder why information-heavy communities chose "knowledge storage" in the form of Discord. Example: i'm looking to build a PrintNC - they've got a really good Wiki, however with all the options i'm a tiny bit overwhelmed, especially since for newcomers like me, there's so much to wrap my head around... Anyways, if i could look up the answers to my questions very probably someone has asked before on a forum, i would…
People do it because Discord has a fundamentally better UX. It's bad for long term archival and the like, but it is an earth-shatteringly better UX than with traditional forum engines.
Are they searchable and indexable? What made PHPBB and all that cool was that it'd turn up in search queries. As a hobbyist, this was an incredible wealth of information for me that has mostly dried up with the advent of walled gardens like slack, discord, etc. Some might point at BBS and IRC and say that those were the same, but I'd argue that they had lower volume, and less rich media, and I'd go one further to say…
IRC is indexed via passive bots. I can still go back and search my old IRC user names in popular search engines and find messages I sent 15 years ago.
[0]: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600430...
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It's not actually that much better. It's mostly chat + sugar (aka good branding and emotes)
Is there someone offering decent forum hosting for free?
Discord basically won because of style over substance. I use it plenty because I don't have a choice. But there's nothing actually good about it besides the VC money they poured into going to market and branding.
Assuming this means that Forum Channels are GA now, we're going to us them for our #ask-for-help channel to make them more organized and searchable. I think it's a great middle ground between Reddit / old-school forums and chats which are dominating the community space right now. Having both in one place (along with voice and video channels, and events) is awesome!
btw, Discord's bot API is wonderful as well. We easily made a `/docs` bot that searches our Algolia site docs search index, shows results in Discord and lets the user choose a result to link to. It's great for answering questions.
Are they searchable and indexable? What made PHPBB and all that cool was that it'd turn up in search queries. As a hobbyist, this was an incredible wealth of information for me that has mostly dried up with the advent of walled gardens like slack, discord, etc. Some might point at BBS and IRC and say that those were the same, but I'd argue that they had lower volume, and less rich media, and I'd go one further to say…
Not PhpBB