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Discord seems the most likely, it matches the subreddit model and a lot of Reddit communities already have a discord. Obviously Discord is chat focused so not
by wilsonnb3 3y ago
Discord seems the most likely, it matches the subreddit model and a lot of Reddit communities already have a discord.
Obviously Discord is chat focused so not a one-to-one replacement but I am not sure that the younger generations will care.
Plus there is the possibility of discord adding a Reddit/forum like feature, since they already have the mindshare.
- Etrnl_President 3y agoDiscord stopped being cool when it started censoring subs for wrongthink, about 4 years ago.
- Vexs 3y agoPlease god no. So much info is already getting dumped to discord and nowhere else making searching or archiving impossible, we don't need more of that.
- Nathanba 3y agothat's part of the appeal nowadays, it seems websites and apps don't see the point of making themselves freely searchable anymore
- edandersen 3y agoThis is a selling point of Discord. The ability to have a conversation without "researchers" being able to search for it for decades.
- OrvalWintermute 3y agoFor many of us, Discord’s model is an anti-pattern. Try searching for something when you don’t recall where you said it (dc server or DM)
- None4U 3y agoSearch the .CSVs yourself?
- CursedUrn 3y agoDoesn't Discord keep the data forever? And potentially sell it to "researchers"?
- lost_tourist 3y agoDiscord no doubt keeps every conversation ever typed on their servers. they might toss out something huge like a movie file but text compresses -very- well.
- alwayslikethis 3y agoSending something to discord is like sending it to /dev/null except that it is also diverted into the mailbox of Big Brother, with you having only very limited access to it on their whim.
- ctvo 3y ago> Discord seems the most likely Reddit is about discovering content. How would you discover anything on Discord? Is there a trending list to see the top messages? Is there a way to list Discord communities so you can discover ones matching your interest? I'm at a lost to how the two are similar in any way except for the "young generations" use them both.
- witchesindublin 3y agoI doubt anyone actually used the front page to discover things, most likely they will stick to a handful of subreddits.
- nagyf 3y agoI use the "Home" and the "Popular" tabs every day to discover things on reddit. I can't be alone with this
- zeven7 3y agoI use /r/all exclusively. I have an account and subscribe to subreddits, but I never go to the home screen. I do check some subreddits directly. Otherwise just /r/all.
- moffkalast 3y agoThere are dozens of us.
- ctvo 3y agoMy partner scrolls through the popular section nightly reading interesting things and chuckling at memes. I think you're out of touch with how many people use Reddit in this casual, low investment way.
- mdale 3y agoThey still need the content creators to create :) which I think they have done a good job of at least creating FOMO of top posts gathering monitory props.
- rhtgrg 3y agoDiscord already has forums. https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-Forum-Channels-FAQ https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...
- moffkalast 3y agoTbf Discord forums are so catastrophically badly designed in terms of UI that they're pretty much unusable. Ultimately if you want good discussion you need the same layout that Reddit and HN have, with indented comments and easily branching chains. Otherwise it's just a chat masquerading as a forum thread which is useless.
- witchesindublin 3y agoThe best UI would probably be a mixture of a forum and reddit. A fourm is a much superior model because it lacks upvotes/downvotes and is chronologically ordered, but lacks branching and chains that you describe. Reddit currently is being used more similarly to the forum culture than anything else.
- lost_tourist 3y agothey could be made better though if reddit's death seems imminent because of a beancounter incursion.
- chillfox 3y agoDiscord already has a forum feature, it’s just rarely used.
- SllX 3y agoDiscord ties together Reddit, YouTube, Twitch and other web communities too: podcasts, webcomics, Patreon. Only issue I’m having with it is discoverability of new communities.
- superfrank 3y agoI disagree. A lot of other people are pointing out the discoverability problem (which I agree is an issue), but I think the medium just isn't comparable. Chat is ephemeral and it there's a certain amount of participation expected, where as Reddit content strikes a nice balance of changing frequently, but not instantaneous and, for most users, it's a passive activity. To put it another way, most people aren't doom-scrolling on a discord server.
- hnick 3y agoIt's also linear. Reddit has hierarchical reply/conversation trees. Even Facebook has that to some degree. Discord doesn't.
- milkytron 3y agoThis, and also that chat platforms don't really have a crowd voting system. The thing I like about HN is that people can vote on content to have it promoted or demoted. Obviously this has its own issues, but I'm not aware of any big social platforms that do this. Twitter kind of does, but it functions a bit different.
- davidcollantes 3y agoI hope this is not the case. In my experience, Discord has always been clunky, very slow, and truly unmanageable (from a user’s perspective).
- 9935c101ab17a66 3y agoAbsolutely not. Discords UX is a hot mess for its intended use case, absolutely no way it is good enough to flex to being a Reddit.