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You can search for things that've been said on Discord, albeit not with Google. Spectrum looks similar to a 2011 text message client, and a niche platform is l

• dorian-graph 9y ago
  > Spectrum looks similar to a 2011 text message client This just isn't true. Compare [1] to [2]. Nor does it look like VB, phpBB, etc. from 2011. [1] https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/08/30/the-top-6-best-instant-message-client-apps-on-any-platform/ https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/08/30/the-top-6-best-instan... [2] https://spectrum.chat/sketch?thread=5ee6de28-e347-4c0f-950d-d515c2fe4455 https://spectrum.chat/sketch?thread=5ee6de28-e347-4c0f-950d-... > .. a good portion of people already have an account on. Ah yes, my N accounts for N communities on Slack.
  • lambda 9y ago
    It has the bubbles around what each person says, which is the style that many of the chat apps in your link have as well. OK, they are flat bubbles now rather than shiny blobby ones, but it's the "bubble for everything someone says" that makes it look dated. I hated the "bubbles" look back then and always used themes that just presented text as text, with possible unobtrusive delimiters between people's comments. Like Slack and Discord do.
• swyx 9y ago
  yes search within-app is not enough. i would like universal search for issues/errors that i encounter with a particular technology. this is one thing stackoverflow definitely got right. im not concerned with the looks. and this niche argument is pretty weak, every platform incl discord starts somewhere.