I wonder if reddit’s ffxiv community decide to move to this community here or somewhere else and what the plans are, because it looks like an indefinite blackout. Probably most are on Discord, but still wondering about all of this.
The real tragedy to lose would be r/ffxivdiscussion , where people actually talk about encounters and game systems/mechanics. That one’s very forum-esque and doesn’t translate to Discord well at all.
I was bored the other day and went looking for that sort of section on the official forums, was very surprised to see it doesn’t exist. There’s subforums for lore discussion and dungeon discussion (lol), but not a subforums for raid discussion or high-end duties in general.
Both types of discussion are welcome here - if this ever grows large enough that we need to split the “hardcore” crowd into their own community, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there.
The REAL real tragedy would be losing r/shitpostxiv 🤣
From what I’ve seen, they’re probably focused on getting everything on Discord. Yesterday I remember seeing some pinned messages about channels to check out as replacements for the Daily Questions Megathread as well as the weekly rotating Megathreads.
Would love to see more people hop on here though, I believe this is the most populated FFXIV (heck FF in general) Community.
Hopefully here, I don’t want to support discord trying to become more like every other social app.
also discord is just awful to archive and you cant search it from outside the app. thats why im happy the balance finally has a website
I don’t know how Discord became the end all be all for everything. Maybe it’s because it’s so easy to start a server? Either way as you said it’s terrible for searching and having asynchronous conversations.
Choosing discord would be very appropriate for ffxiv then - after all, name a more iconic duo than FFXIV and absolutely atrocious UI decisions 😁
I don’t think it’s even trying to, it’s just the users that see nails everywhere after getting a shiny new hammer. Discord is an excellent instant messenger & voice chat app, but it’s in no way a Reddit or forum replacement. They’ve added threads but again, those work more for containing conversations that veered off the original topic or are too specific for a channel, not as a replacement for something like a Reddit post.
I agree. I just can’t keep up with everything on Discord, especially larger channels. It can’t replace open searchable content on the web (such as forums) by a long shot.
Discord is such a terrible destination for a sea of information, I really hope the end result isn’t ending up there.
I brought up this community on the ffxiv discord, and I think I managed to convince at least 1 person that lemmy is a pretty cool idea.
As someone from /r/ffxiv, I stumpled upon this place on my own
