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I’d argue discord is even worse.

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Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out

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It’s an excellent chat program (except it’s pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn’t function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.

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10 points

Well yeah, because it’s not a forum.

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10 points

Yeah… shooting some nonsense back and forth. But game devs that shoehorn stuff into discord making everything objectively worse while making everything unfindable… it drives me nuts!

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2 points

username checks out

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0 points

discord requires a phone number to create an account. hard pass.

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9 points

Most toxic moderators of large subreddits does come from discord.

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8 points

Oh definitely. At least Reddit can be searched (let’s see for how long though)

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That’s an adult themed subreddit. You’ll need to sign in on the app thanks!

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At least Reddit can be searched by google or on site1,2,3

1 terms and conditions do apply
2 you need an account for some subreddits
3 you also need the app for some subreddits

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5 points

That’s not exactly true anymore. Reddit has deindexed itself.

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5 points

It’s a toss up, for me. Both managed to capture all discussion on major open source projects.

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Yeah, I feel dirty for even saying this…

Reddit allows site wide search, and recently contracted with Google to make their content accessible. Also old reddit content is searchable and thread based conversations can be followed.

Discord is just a vast collection of independent black holes that gobble up information and data while its users collectively yell into the void of chat channels.

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If you’re looking for a discussion board and end up in a chat room, of course you’ll be disappointed. That one’s on the user, not the service.

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Yeah, it’s just that devs of games guide everyone there and try and shoehorn it in. I don’t know how or why devs do this… just run your own forum with a chat module.

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Just say no. I don’t join any discord groups for crap like that, if it’s not on some public wiki, I don’t bother. Most games don’t need a community anyway, if I can’t find one readily available, I’ll enjoy it for what it is and move on to the next one.

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