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The blogroll-style linking culture is still alive in Discord communities. With colorful about pages, and everything. Animated emojis are the new GIFs. Sadly the

The blogroll-style linking culture is still alive in Discord communities. With colorful about pages, and everything. Animated emojis are the new GIFs. Sadly they do not offer much in terms of persistent content.

jdrc 5y ago
> Discord communities. You mean the "app" that has no search and requires you to sign up to see anything, then pass some obscure initiation ritual by the mods, then be pestered with various bots. And that app doesn't even make money yet, wait until they decide to become profitable.
- kaetemi 5y ago
  No-search is the best part. You actually have to talk with people, and get to know them, to discover more communities! Sadly, it's a proprietary space, yes, but still. The difference with "social" networks (and now the bad state of search engines) is that you actually get to be part of a community. As opposed to shouting in a loud bar to compete for likes to get heard better maybe if some algorithm likes you.
  - jagged-chisel 5y ago
    > No-search is the best part. You actually have to talk with people… I tire of answering the same question hundreds of times
    - Aurelius3 5y ago
      What do you mean by no search exactly? I think there is a disconnect between the person you replied to and the person that the person you replied to replied to. Discord has a pretty good search function for messages, attachments, and embeds in servers depending on date, author, etc. As for searching for servers to join they didin't have that before and you had to rely on third party aggregators, now they do, although I have never tried it out as I prefer joining servers who advertise themselves on their own websites individually.
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pmlnr 5y ago
> Discord Discord communities are nearly as much readable as geocities pages were as well, but that is not a compliment.
- kaetemi 5y ago
  I think it's charming. :)

jdrc 5y ago

> Discord communities. You mean the "app" that has no search and requires you to sign up to see anything, then pass some obscure initiation ritual by the mods, then be pestered with various bots. And that app doesn't even make money yet, wait until they decide to become profitable.

kaetemi 5y ago
No-search is the best part. You actually have to talk with people, and get to know them, to discover more communities! Sadly, it's a proprietary space, yes, but still. The difference with "social" networks (and now the bad state of search engines) is that you actually get to be part of a community. As opposed to shouting in a loud bar to compete for likes to get heard better maybe if some algorithm likes you.
- jagged-chisel 5y ago
  > No-search is the best part. You actually have to talk with people… I tire of answering the same question hundreds of times
  - Aurelius3 5y ago
    What do you mean by no search exactly? I think there is a disconnect between the person you replied to and the person that the person you replied to replied to. Discord has a pretty good search function for messages, attachments, and embeds in servers depending on date, author, etc. As for searching for servers to join they didin't have that before and you had to rely on third party aggregators, now they do, although I have never tried it out as I prefer joining servers who advertise themselves on their own websites individually.
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pmlnr 5y ago

> Discord Discord communities are nearly as much readable as geocities pages were as well, but that is not a compliment.

kaetemi 5y ago
I think it's charming. :)