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    ditch discord! (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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      The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Well, if all the good answers are behind non-indexable discord servers, of course search engines will be filled with SEO crap. If I Google "how to parse HTML with regex" stack overflow comes as the first entry.

    Wikis and FAQs are not at all unique to discord.

    If the only benefit is that "it's not reachable, therefore spammers won't spam", then it is shit. If an information source is not reachable, might as well not exist. If you don't want spammers, you make things read-only, or whitelist/blacklist system or any other system.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

    Wikis and FAQs are not at all unique to discord.

    No. And I'll happily concede that the above is annoying af when the Wiki/Web FAQ should be the primary source for info. But Google should be able to search/cache/serve that kind of info and clearly seems incapable of doing so anymore.

    If the only benefit is that “it’s not reachable, therefore spammers won’t spam”, then it is shit.

    I don't think that's the only benefit of Discord, by a long shot. I just consider it a fringe benefit, relative to the older "Here's a link to a Slashdot post from 2001 that's got 5000 comments, 90% of which are now gibberish that's piled in thanks to the high Google index."