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I think Discord has had a huge impact on Stack Overflow as there are many communities created for specific technologies, languages, frameworks, or topics, where
by monkin 3y ago
I think Discord has had a huge impact on Stack Overflow as there are many communities created for specific technologies, languages, frameworks, or topics, where most users can get answers from direct contributors or people who have the best industry knowledge on the topic in question.
Not to mention how beneficial it is for brands and products to create such closely-knit communities for their users. There's no need to Google things or ask on SO, as one can chat in real time and go back and forth for solutions with other users.
- orangussyy 3y agoYeah except Discord is toxic as fuck and should be banished...
- asaddhamani 3y agoNot to mention unsearchable, poor discovery, a chat platform is not a replacement for message boards. SO is well suited to the Q&A format and Discord just isn’t.
- monkin 3y agoFrom my experience, most questions and answers are asked and solved in forum channels, which are quite easy to search for anything you need.
- GuestHNUser 3y agoOn Discord? Really? My experience has been that if I don't know what the popular community discord is and what channels to search, I will simply not find an answer. For me, my Discord experience really suffers from Discord not being indexed by search engines.
- monkin 3y agoToxic? I sit mostly in tech/product servers, so I didn't spot that, but maybe you're right about places that are just "general".
- lloydatkinson 3y agoYou should see the discord server for the C# language. What a mess.