person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:

  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, “wow a cool software. let’s check out the community”
  2. screenshot with the text

    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

  3. hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
  4. person looking behind with the text “nevermind”.
    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      10 months ago

      Discord is a real-time communication system that also has a built-in history feature. This type of communication promotes conversational interactions, which are really hard to search for complete ideas about problems and their solutions, and those solutions are not indexed by internet search engines, which makes it extremely difficult for people to discover useful information on the platform even with the available history.

      The asynchronous nature of web based forums promotes communication in more complete ideas (though this is clearly not always how communication happens) and they are indexable by search engines.

      Just look at how people discover solutions in Reddit posts so frequently when searching Google, but nobody finds solutions in chat logs, even IRC which has been around for decades and is often archived in a search indexable site where chat logs are posted.

      Edit: I swear that wasn’t written even a bit by AI.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
        19·
        10 months ago

        Edit: I swear that wasn’t written even a bit by AI.

        That’s the beauty of it. Tomorrow, it will be.

        (When an AI copy/pastes your answer to someone asking about choosing the correct iphone power brick, or something.)

        • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          10 months ago

          Maybe that’s one thing people like about discord: AI can’t index their chat logs… unless discord starts selling that data.

            • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
              5·
              10 months ago

              They’re using AI to generate summaries of chat logs.

              I don’t believe they’ve had an IPO yet, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they start selling that data to hit profitability.

          • thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca
            7·
            10 months ago

            “Starts” lol. They are way ahead of you, my friend.

            I recommend reading Discord’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy some time. It is… more eyebrow-raising than usual.

      • ccunning@lemmy.world
        15·
        10 months ago

        You don’t really address why having a “conversational” option is bad. I understand the advantages of searchable history but that’s not necessarily the right option for every community. Diversity is good.

        • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world
          7·
          10 months ago

          It’s not bad to have the conversational option, but at a certain point in a project’s life cycle it probably shouldn’t be the only option.

          A complex project like a government would have a hard time throwing out all their knowledge infrastructure and relying purely on Discord.

          • ccunning@lemmy.world
            1·
            10 months ago

            Sure, but every project doesn’t have to provide every option.

            Look at Reddit’s terrible conversational “solution”.

            Discord is the option.

      • Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
        19·
        10 months ago

        This whole comment/complaint is just the pros and cons of different types of communication. None of this is discord specific, it’s just complaints that real time chat isn’t indexed by search engines and isn’t organized into clear topics.

        Sure, some IRC chats were logged/posted, but that still has all the same searchability problems, and that process can still be used within discord search. It’s just not useful because real time chat doesn’t have any sort of topic organization.

        This whole thing is like complaining that signal is worse than email because it’s not as organized. It’s not worse, it’s just a different medium with different goals and purpose. And you’re not giving any specifics as to why signal/discord is bad, just that you don’t like direct messaging/chat rooms.

    • cucumberbob@programming.dev
      11·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think people hate discord as a host for some communities, but there definitely is a growing rejection of it among FOSS contributors.

      It sucks as a place to store knowledge. The search sucks, it’s not indexable by search engines, and requires an account to use. As another commenter on this post said, it combines the worst parts of IRC and webforums.

      There are better ways to organise a FOSS project, and people are unhappy that some projects still choose discord.

    • tubaruco@lemm.ee
      6·
      10 months ago

      its not open source, meaning its spyware

      now seriously, i think its only issue is that it doesnt run well, and its even worse on phones. it works very well as a tool to create communities and talk to people.