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this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2026
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Discord is just objectively terrible for knowledge. It's not search indexable or archivable. It's more or less a memory hole.
Discord is a communications platform with tacked on features that resemble forums mostly as a means of organization. It's not a KB or repository under any circumstances outside of misuse, so why would it have to be good at being searched/indexed?
Because not everything is a bug. People frequently want help and having a searchable place for past discussions it is helpful. Also this was in response to people complaining about forums and implying what came after is better so misuse is very much relevant here. Every modding community and a lot of other dev groups use discord for everything and it is from experience a trainwreck.
I hope you're not implying an old forum search was any good
Back when Google was a decent search engine you could just search "something site:someforum.com" since the built in search was so ass
Something Reddit has in common with old forums
Google didn't remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet.
Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence "search indexable"
I'm not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.
Not denying that it's shit, I don't know anyone who's actually happy with it. But old forums also weren't built nicely.
You say search indexable as if it's a panacea, but you find whatever you want to find with your search engine, click the link, and it is:
So you know that the info was there at some point, but you can't access it.
The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time