3 ms·
As useful as discord is for its primary purpose, it's probably also one of the worst development for communities in the last decades. Discord is a chat, not a f
by slightwinder 5y ago
As useful as discord is for its primary purpose, it's probably also one of the worst development for communities in the last decades. Discord is a chat, not a forum, nor a wiki. It's just not meant to make knowledge accessible. And even proper discussion are barely possible after a certain group size.
But on the other side, it's a very well protected walled garden, and communities can distance themselves from the rest of the world there quite well. Not really sure whether it's good to have so many communities growing in the shadows, outside the public attention.
- stiltzkin 5y agoGuilded is a Discord alternative with extra channel types as forums.
- steffen84 5y agoI am a member in a tabletop gaming club, and no one wants to be responsible if some new European internet law is broken. So our forum was closed an we have our private community on discord.
- dijit 5y agoYour tabletop gaming club is not the target of GDPR unless you’re _very_ sloppy with user data or you’re selling user data. All forums, even 20 year old ones, allow you to easily comply with GDPR data requests and deletions without additional tooling from the admin panels: because good moderation tools used to be a thing that didn’t need legal enforcement.