To some extent Discord servers have replaced forums and now you have to try to search through a chat room’s history to find out info instead of using a forum. Seems like a pretty big downgrade.
You can mute servers or chat channels inside servers. People like it because it is nice looking, has all their favourite emojis and gif memes. And decent voice chat.
I have them muted, but it always feels overwhelming for me to catch up with servers I try to follow. The information is either not structured at all, or too structured/scattered that you won’t find anything useful anymore. I myself indeed use it for voice when playing some games, but it is in no way a replacement for a chatroom or forum, it is in my opinion too chaotic for that.
Yeah, I know that and it’s true - there are definitely some upsides. It’s also an awful way to organize information and discussion for people to reference in the future since nothing is logically organized by topic or conversation or anything.
I’m in a couple of small Discords that were set up for my local circles of friends, for coordinating our RPG sessions and general hangout stuff. Those are good.
I’ve tried joining some of the big Discords for various games and other big topics, and those have basically been useless. I never think to go check them, and when I do it’s just a big blob of useless text.
I never got the appeal of Discord anyway, after a while it simply becomes a dump of notifications that I cannot follow up on.
To some extent Discord servers have replaced forums and now you have to try to search through a chat room’s history to find out info instead of using a forum. Seems like a pretty big downgrade.
why not just use forums for questions
You can mute servers or chat channels inside servers. People like it because it is nice looking, has all their favourite emojis and gif memes. And decent voice chat.
I have them muted, but it always feels overwhelming for me to catch up with servers I try to follow. The information is either not structured at all, or too structured/scattered that you won’t find anything useful anymore. I myself indeed use it for voice when playing some games, but it is in no way a replacement for a chatroom or forum, it is in my opinion too chaotic for that.
Yeah, I know that and it’s true - there are definitely some upsides. It’s also an awful way to organize information and discussion for people to reference in the future since nothing is logically organized by topic or conversation or anything.
I’m in a couple of small Discords that were set up for my local circles of friends, for coordinating our RPG sessions and general hangout stuff. Those are good.
I’ve tried joining some of the big Discords for various games and other big topics, and those have basically been useless. I never think to go check them, and when I do it’s just a big blob of useless text.