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Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by nicoburns »

Arch-TK wrote: post #53

Yes, please stop using discord. But also maybe stop using discourse. Nothing is more off-putting about an open source project than seeing that discord is the main support forum. I am in the fortunate position of being able to just solve my own problems by myself most of the time, but sometimes it genuinely is helpful to talk to someone about it. If you're an open source project, please use IRC, or matrix if you absol…

Zulip is a good middle ground here. Open source, browsable without logging in (if configured to be), and much better UX than IRC (or god forbid Matrix which has to be about the worst chat software I've used).

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by jimbobthrowawy »

Still moderately surprised there isn't an option built into discord to make certain channels public for reading/indexing.

I have seen one site that seems to enable it by adding their bot to your "server", but it's only on a handful of programming-focused ones.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by gostsamo »

RyJones wrote: post #14
gardenhedge wrote: post #5

Agreed. I also find it to be a terrible ux so I am bias

We (Hyperledger) got a ton of positive feedback from our blind users when we moved to Discord. Apparently the UX is extremely well laid out for screen readers.

I'm blind and I don't like Discord. They implement accessibility well, but they, Slack, Teams and the like have decided that I need to know the sender and time stamp of every message in the chat. Read to me for every message.

Jumping between screen sections is annoying because lists and headings are too nineties and the hell with them.

Captchas? Should I mention that for some reason they disliked one of my logins and put an inaccessible captcha? Maybe your unhappy blind users are still locked out and can't tell you for their issues. Good that I was registered with a gmail account and circumvented them by adding a dot in the email field.

Those are personal experiences and I don't know your previous solution, but for me Discord manages to be annoying in a very specific and unnecessary way.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by tokai »

fireflash38 wrote: post #33
sampullman wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least reddit is indexed by search engines, right? I find that for a significant portion of my searches, appending "reddit" cuts through SEO/blogspam results and I get an answer without having to wade through too much nonsense.

For now. How long until they put it behind a sign in barrier ala Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc?

They do that now.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by dools »

I remember a similar sentiment being expressed in IRC chats back in the day, ie. that it was way better to use mailing lists because they publicly recorded all the problems and solutions.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by cl3misch »

I'm not the first to say this, but Discord is essentially IRC. It's great for ephemeral chatting and arguably the best platform for that currently. The content on it is not indexed and not discoverable with web search engines.

I have been wondering: is it even possible for a platform to fulfill both needs?

For searchable, "forum style" discussions, we already have a large accessible platform: Reddit! I genuinely ask myself: why is "Join our Discord" much more popular than "Join our Reddit"?

I personally prefer "forum style" discussion over "IRC style" discussions, but the polularity of Discord even in technical circles proves to me that a lot of people like the IRC style of communication.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by codingcodingboy »

moooo99 wrote: post #79
barkerja wrote: post #57

I use Discord quite a bit in the Elixir community and find it quite useful. Messages are persisted. There's a wonderful forum feature now built into the platform; and it's all searchable with a pretty robust filtering mechanism. And with an active server, there's typically always someone around to help you chat through a problem almost immediately. I understand the sentiment, but it does seem misinformed. Slack, on t…

I don’t think the sentiment is misinformed. I understand your position and I’ve had pleasant experiences on discord in the past with people being very willing to help. However, the help I received for my problem is basically impossible to discovered for anybody else (in fact, I have a hard time finding this thread myself). Discord is really great for realtime interactions, wether that be chatting or talking. But it a…

I am already distracted enough and now you are getting me interested into construction!

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by NeutralForest »

kwanbix wrote: post #59
NeutralForest wrote: post #37

I feel like we have this discussion every month, one way or another. People use Discord because it's useful and they like the experience. Discourse is nice for purely written communication but if you want to setup a call, direct message and, more importantly, write bots (presentation, topic organization, news, modding, now even AI Q&A); people will fall back to Discord. Pointing at Discourse when it doesn't have the…

I have been using computers for 40 years and I cannot see a single feature of discord that I cannot have on a forum or even reddit. In fact, the UX of Discord is abismal.

Then you're not the public they're targeting but if we want things to change, we need to be cognizant of why people like Discord.
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