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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 143 points 2 years ago* (20 children)

The amount of niche info that would have been found in searchable forum posts in years prior, that has now gotten sucked up into Discord where it can’t be found, fucking blows.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    And imagine if public facing forums weren't mostly dead because of the "necroposting" hate moderator brainworm

    Oops this discussion from 2017 is the number one google link for your niche topic ? Well, too bad, post in new and maybe in five years it will be #2 post on google for that topic.

    Who put the nerds with no friends in charge of human social interaction ‽

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I don't know what you mean by "necroposting" hate moderator brainworm". Care to elaborate one what this I and why it is bad?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's very common for forums to have rules against posting in a thread that hasn't seen any activity for an arbitrary amount of time. When you do that, you will often cause a thread that has fallen from the front page to bump back to the top of the front page. It's not clear why this is a problem, though. Maybe regulars just dislike seeing old topics brought back up?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago*

    It's the snowball effect.

    Most people can't think for themselves, so they just do what everyone else is doing.

    If you deviate from the crowd, then you're in the wrong.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Post in a old thread, and often mods will immediately yell at you and close the thread for having committed the crime of necroposting. Which only makes visible the old post for the minuscule but devoted part of the userbase that actually waits in the "thread by last post, chronological order view". Those people by definition, want new stuff and are annoyed by the old thread messing up the feng shui of their post order. Probably an OCD thing.

    This is mostly because those old forum software lack a "thread by creation date, chronological view".

    So they close those discussions that happen on the timescale of years. They close the discussion that are google's top links. Then they get bored waiting for new and leave for discord. Where nothing is recorded nor searchable. So all this effort and knowledge goes right down the drain.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Well, forums are not real time, and that's what most people these days want apparently.

    So, on to the alternatives:

    Element / Matrix:

    • Lackluster moderation tools
    • Voice channels not ready
    • Signing up is hard / federation not well explained

    Revolt Chat

    • Run by very talented kiddies
    • Not stable
    • Not easily self-hostable
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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    well, the problem is not that forums are not real time. the problem is that people use real time chats for things that should't be done in real time. like guides, which should stand on their own as an organized post, easily searched and found.

    "real time" chats, that is, instant messengers, have their time and place. they have been around for a while, but they never really replaced forums. until discord came, which kind of then did. which i guess also resulted from facebook groups, twitter, instagram, and reddit first kind of partially replacing forums, after which then forums really fell out of favor, and discord really is way easier and better to interact with than any of the others mentioned (aside from maybe reddit). people are also just lazy and jusy use whatever works.

    and people then started using discord like a forum since forums are almost dead and discord is just simple and easy. so many guides, info, announcements, etc. are put in discord like it is a forum since the admittedly amazing features for roles and bots make it convenient.

    it all gets lost in a sea instant messaging organizing. to find something, one must go to one of a a bunch pinned messages in one of the bajillion channels that links to a post (i say oost, it is actually a message) which in turn links to a series of messages where someone knowledgeable posted something useful intertwined with shitpost messages fromither people. if you are lucky, someone made a google doc for a guide, but those also suck, and they are also not easily found unless you know the guy who knows the guy who knows which pinned message in which channel has the link to it.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    You can't change how people want to communicate. So you either open a channel for people that won't sign up to a forum or don't get those users. Is it the best type of medium? Doesn't matter for them. It matters to other types of users.

    I prefer Forums, but I'm not the type of user we are talking about.

    Edit: I don't get why the downvotes, we are having a respectful conversation, if you downvote because you disagree, you are upvoting an echo chamber.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Well, forums are not real time, and that’s what most people these days want apparently.

    I think people use discord where it's a bad fit not because it's what most people want, but because it's what's familiar, free, and already in front of them.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If I understand correctly, you are proving my point by saying people chose Discord over others, and then you list their reasons.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    No, I am disputing your claim: "forums are not real time, and that’s what most people these days want apparently."

    Obviously, a lot of people use Discord, but I think you're mistaken about their motivations. They didn't choose it because they think forums are inferior to real-time chat. We can see that by the massive popularity of Reddit over Discord's lifetime. Rather, they chose Discord because it's what was offered (along with heavy marketing), and because it was convenient (especially for community creators).

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Forums are the best? I still can get info from electronics forums from 20y ago and it's well organized.

    I don't see any other alternatives, revolt chat is new and just a discord alternative that sucks as well while element is fricking bad at indexing stuff, you can't search anything there not to mention their bad encryption.

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