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In my experience discord servers will scale up to about about 20 people at most. I don't think that's the use case model discord is trying to push, but I think

In my experience discord servers will scale up to about about 20 people at most. I don't think that's the use case model discord is trying to push, but I think there's a large long tail of small friends-only discord servers in the order of 3-20 people. Within those parameters discord does work well. Nothing else has the necessary creature comforts (by default). I think most of my friends have misgivings about discord, but I don't think there's anything else that fills this niche well at the moment. Big discord servers are a completely different world, I don't understand how people put up with that.

wyclif 5y ago
About half of the Discord servers I have joined completely stalled and became ghost towns; when they did I deleted them. The bigger ones, while thriving, have huge numbers of users but are terrible for finding information that the org they represent needs to retain.
- urthor 5y ago
  Out of curiosity, why? Seems fairly simple to perform simple keyword searching, just like Slack.
  - wyclif 5y ago
    Sure, you can keyword search easily enough, but the information you might be looking for is sometimes scattered over dozens of channels.
    - tekknik 5y ago
      You can do a server wide search. Did you mean spread across servers?
  - donmcronald 5y ago
    The biggest problem is a lack of threading. I can often find questions matching mine, but the answers are impossible to search for because a lot of replies won't ever @ the question asker. So I'm left skimming an entire channel that includes 50 other things that I don't care about at the moment. The sheer volume can be overwhelming too. I went on the Zenith (VR MMO) Discord the day after release to ask a question and I found it to be useless. The channel was moving so fast that 2 min after I asked my question I couldn't even find it and had to search for it. There's no way to follow something going that fast (at least for me) and a lot of the chatter is tangential, so in addition to being poorly organized the signal to noise ratio is low.
    - tekknik 5y ago
      > The biggest problem is a lack of threading. I can often find questions matching mine, but the answers are impossible to search for because a lot of replies won't ever @ the question asker. And what if they don’t click the thread button? You’re back in the same problem. So the issue isn’t with discord, it’s with users.
  - antifa 5y ago
    Usually you won't know what server it will be in, and usually you'll be searching from google.
    - tekknik 5y ago
      User convos on discord are (thankfully) not indexed by google, so how? Did you also know google search devices are a thing and you can implement google search in your produce quite easily?
AmericanChopper 5y ago
That’s basically how I use. Just as a replacement for Ventrilo or Mumble for voice chat while playing video games. It’s rather good for this use case. I think there’s maybe 10 people on our server, and I’m pretty happy with the UX.
zerber 5y ago

wyclif 5y ago

About half of the Discord servers I have joined completely stalled and became ghost towns; when they did I deleted them. The bigger ones, while thriving, have huge numbers of users but are terrible for finding information that the org they represent needs to retain.

urthor 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why? Seems fairly simple to perform simple keyword searching, just like Slack.
- wyclif 5y ago
  Sure, you can keyword search easily enough, but the information you might be looking for is sometimes scattered over dozens of channels.
  - tekknik 5y ago
    You can do a server wide search. Did you mean spread across servers?
- donmcronald 5y ago
  The biggest problem is a lack of threading. I can often find questions matching mine, but the answers are impossible to search for because a lot of replies won't ever @ the question asker. So I'm left skimming an entire channel that includes 50 other things that I don't care about at the moment. The sheer volume can be overwhelming too. I went on the Zenith (VR MMO) Discord the day after release to ask a question and I found it to be useless. The channel was moving so fast that 2 min after I asked my question I couldn't even find it and had to search for it. There's no way to follow something going that fast (at least for me) and a lot of the chatter is tangential, so in addition to being poorly organized the signal to noise ratio is low.
  - tekknik 5y ago
    > The biggest problem is a lack of threading. I can often find questions matching mine, but the answers are impossible to search for because a lot of replies won't ever @ the question asker. And what if they don’t click the thread button? You’re back in the same problem. So the issue isn’t with discord, it’s with users.
- antifa 5y ago
  Usually you won't know what server it will be in, and usually you'll be searching from google.
  - tekknik 5y ago
    User convos on discord are (thankfully) not indexed by google, so how? Did you also know google search devices are a thing and you can implement google search in your produce quite easily?

AmericanChopper 5y ago

That’s basically how I use. Just as a replacement for Ventrilo or Mumble for voice chat while playing video games. It’s rather good for this use case. I think there’s maybe 10 people on our server, and I’m pretty happy with the UX.

zerber 5y ago