• hydro033@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Discord is the best chat app ever created. (but I agree, it’s not a good reddit/forum replacement)

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      Sure, but probably the worst for community-forum style content. Links expire, information moves all over the place, no search indexing for engines, can’t view content if you aren’t in the server already, basically impossible to have discussions about anything older than the current day. It doesn’t work for a lot of use cases that reddit/lemmy do.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed, and I never said it is a good reddit replacement. I think discord is lightyears ahead of previous platforms that it replaced like Ventrillo, Teamspeak, AIM, Whatsapp, ICQ, etc etc etc

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      It’s okay for private/semi-public group based chats. It’s not made for public threaded discussions.

      It’s a horrible alternative for reddit.

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      Sure; it’s just so good at being a chat app that it makes a terrible forum.

      My understanding is that it can be done and with a whole host of third party tools and bots and a little legion of mods - but that’s a ton of work both setup and ongoing, just to reshape Discord into the sort of format that Reddit or Kbin/Lemmy offer pretty much right out the box.

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      But one of the worst for everything else it tries to be or people try to use it for, like help forums. It’s a black hole for information. They’ve taken steps to mitigate that, but it remains a half-baked solution.

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        I mean, it probably is the best chat app besides privacy. That is, unfortunately, not at all relevant to replacing Reddit.

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        It’s not a great replacement for a forum experience, a “I need to search for an answer to a specific question” experience, or anything like that.

        But for the sense of community that people tended to identify with their favorite subs? I think it’s a pretty solid platform. Still has all the same issues regarding any centralized service run by a company, but that’s going to be the case for the vast majority of replacements until there’s a major paradigm shift across the world.