• unalivejoy@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Since when is Discord a proper place to get information? On larger servers, anything you type is gone forever after an hour due to the volume of messages.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Its not.

      but people still insist on using it as a information store house. Much to the detriment of everyone.

    • ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      For someone in Russia, the impermanence might be a desirable feature. I mean, there’s always still IRC but Discord is all the rage these days.

      Get off my lawn.

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        8 months ago

        It’s not even properly impermanent because somebody else can just archive everything, ironically giving them better overview than the actual members themselves

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      8 months ago

      Do you not know how to properly search in discord? Sure forums are better but a message in discord isn’t “gone forever” if you’re searching. It’s a pretty fast to search too, which is an insanely impressive feat due to the sheer amount of messages.

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      8 months ago

      When I don’t find information through a search engine, I go asking it from people themselves.

      Discord is an easy solution for me to find this information at that point. Much easier than generating yet another user account in a website I might use once in my life, while I already use discord a lot.
      By the way - you can search for messages you have sent and for messages that were pointed directly to you. Makes delving into old conversations much easier.

      Of course Telegram and other services like that can help too.