4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right
pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?
It’s confusing to me why people think discord is a good replacement for forums. It’s not even the same paradigm - it’s a chat program. Not being indexed by search engines is a major drawback as well.
Because you can make a Discord server in like one click basically. That's it. Also they have forum channels now on so-called community servers.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying Discord is better. I still hate how often it is used for things it shouldn't be and I hate that it isn't indexed by search engines. I'm just explaining.
IT'S NOT A SERVER FFS
I feel you. I'm just using the terminology they do.
Searching shit is pretty damn important and Discord isn't optimal, definitely. But somehow it's better at searching than Lemmy! Now how does that happen?
Lemmy is indexed so can be found on search engines while discord cant
For internal search without using a search engine discord has had way more devs, time and money thrown at it. Still would say its barely better than lemmy (just is cause of the time filters)
Exactly, it's a different paradigm and I don't want a forum.