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I really dislike using Discord and I can't even figure out why (so it's probably me). I do know it's not the part where it is a chat app per se - I'm happily us
by vanderZwan 4y ago
I really dislike using Discord and I can't even figure out why (so it's probably me). I do know it's not the part where it is a chat app per se - I'm happily using Zulip, managing with Slack, and WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack all have their place. But something about the UI/UX of chatting in Discord just makes it a stream of conversations where I can barely follow what's going on.
Having said that in many contexts a forum with threads that have a clear topic are just so much more of an appropriate solution than chat apps. I don't understand why people prefer the latter (although it does explain why I prefer Zulip since it manages to be a good hybrid in how it organizes discussions).
- gardenhedge 4y agoI'm in the same camp, discord and discourse just aren't useful to me
- iggldiggl 4y agoMy number one issue with most of those forum "successors" is that everything is hidden behind a registration wall. That means that they won't be indexed by search engines, so I cannot serendipitously stumble across them during a random web search in the first place, and even if I somehow learned about them, having to sign up merely to read some stuff is annoying.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoIsn't that also true for Facebook groups? I don't really like Discord, so I don't use it, and have no feedback on it. I used to run a SimpleMachines forum, and we actually wanted to prevent the contents from being indexed.
- jamesfinlayson 4y agoI agree - very easy to lose track of something in the random chat that occurs. I use Discord because there's where some discussion I'm interested in happens though - not much choice sometimes.