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How would you even index something like Discord? It's mostly a chat app, where discussions are casual and often mixed togheter with others... It's not like a fo
by Double_a_92 4y ago
How would you even index something like Discord? It's mostly a chat app, where discussions are casual and often mixed togheter with others... It's not like a forum where each post is at least a somewhat coherent thought written out properly.
- polski-g 4y agoDiscord should be publishing chat logs in HTML format, like how FreeNode did for their IRC logs.
- Double_a_92 4y agoI would dislike that. Imagine if every single thing you say to your friends while being in a public space was recorded for everyone to see in the future... The point of a chat is to be ephemeral. Otherwise it would just be a forum with really bad and chaotic content.
- postalrat 4y agoArchiving and indexing public IRC or Discord isn't the same as putting up microphones everywhere to listen to conversations between friends.
- Double_a_92 4y agoWhy not? The microphones wouldn't be everywhere, just in specific places where people like to go to socialize. Say a study room at Uni for example... imagine all the "good knowledge" we are missing by not recording every single word students say at Uni and making it publicly searchable. Right? Even if you could always go to another Uni, it's still annoying and bad.