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Discord desperately needs threading. I prefer the Slack model where you can reply inside a thread and you replies stay within the thread instead of being scatt

Discord desperately needs threading. I prefer the Slack model where you can reply inside a thread and you replies stay within the thread instead of being scattered all over the place like IRC. I hate to admit it, but this is one thing that Slack does better than IRC, except that in that model you do miss seeing everything that's talked about in the channel (because many of the conversations are hidden in the threads), but it's a better model for organization.

nkjnlknlk 3y ago
Discord does have threading and a pseudo-forum view as well. None of that changes its main societal flaw which is being a walled garden. So much loss of information.
- Tyr42 3y ago
  I don't really want my wisecracking with my friends published forever, so WAI?
  - majormajor 3y ago
    I agree, there's a solid case to be made for "archiving requires additional work" compared to "archived by default with very high effort required to escape it" like most of the web today; just look at the recent discussions of the US government buying up various databases of personal data. Few people would want that to include what they said when they were 15 and bored. Course, the bigger problem with centralized corporate services is that discord themselves could be shipping off that data on the backend to god knows who... but from the "protect me from other individual harassing me forever about shit I said once" front, Discord has some obvious appeal.
    - abnercoimbre 3y ago
      Even so, I see community members searching for gossip on what some ex-member said on Discord years ago. So I find that digging things up still happens (even a former employer did it to me!). I guess it feels more self-contained though, and it spreads a little slower.
      - majormajor 3y ago
        Yeah, it's slower, not impossible. Throwing back to the past, central logging is new, and twenty years ago it would've been hearsay where many people couldn't verify those claimed past conversations. I would have no issues with a two-month default expiry policy for these things.
SirMaster 3y ago
Discord does have that, via Forum channels.

nkjnlknlk 3y ago

Discord does have threading and a pseudo-forum view as well. None of that changes its main societal flaw which is being a walled garden. So much loss of information.

Tyr42 3y ago
I don't really want my wisecracking with my friends published forever, so WAI?
- majormajor 3y ago
  I agree, there's a solid case to be made for "archiving requires additional work" compared to "archived by default with very high effort required to escape it" like most of the web today; just look at the recent discussions of the US government buying up various databases of personal data. Few people would want that to include what they said when they were 15 and bored. Course, the bigger problem with centralized corporate services is that discord themselves could be shipping off that data on the backend to god knows who... but from the "protect me from other individual harassing me forever about shit I said once" front, Discord has some obvious appeal.
  - abnercoimbre 3y ago
    Even so, I see community members searching for gossip on what some ex-member said on Discord years ago. So I find that digging things up still happens (even a former employer did it to me!). I guess it feels more self-contained though, and it spreads a little slower.
    - majormajor 3y ago
      Yeah, it's slower, not impossible. Throwing back to the past, central logging is new, and twenty years ago it would've been hearsay where many people couldn't verify those claimed past conversations. I would have no issues with a two-month default expiry policy for these things.

SirMaster 3y ago

Discord does have that, via Forum channels.