Discord is a black hole for information

The machine required a lot of finessing to get working properly, and almost all of the information was in discord channels.

The people writing and sharing info in those channels were of course very gracious and helpful, but it was frustrating to try and search for things there instead of on a traditional forum.

If I were trying to subtly encourage pounding out content free crap, I would probably want people to use difficult to search, non paginated scroll feeds as much as possible.

Discord might be a black hole, but Discourse has some of the same properties. Facebook is the same way.

Anything that funnels people into multi-thousand post individual pages is going to lose information.

Old proboards forums, github issues, and wikis don't have this problem. Content is in smaller blocks that can be linked to easily, and there is a strong culture of keeping topics focused. You don't have multiple unrelated conversations in one place.

You can jump to the end or beginning of a thread when quickly skimming to see if it's relevant.

And you can see all threads in a given time period pretty easily with pagination, when you want to understand the larger picture at a point and time.

These are all things that are useful both for a sense of community and for technical work itself.

"With the release of Granblue Fantasy Versus, many players are getting into fighting games for the first time ever. But often for new players, the genre can seem to be daunting or overwhelming. But luckily it’s easier than ever to learn how to play. All you need to get started is to just join the Discord. No, not that Discord, the other one."