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I found that part of it is the informality of it all. There is no expectation that someone will search the chat history for an answer. When you don’t get an ans
by eddythompson80 3y ago
I found that part of it is the informality of it all. There is no expectation that someone will search the chat history for an answer. When you don’t get an answer, but someone after you does, you can ping on it maybe once more. Those who don’t know the answer might chime in with “hey, I don’t know but look there”
In general it has a much lower barrier of entry. With all the good and bad that brings.
For the record I think it’s a miss in general. But YMMV.
- Operyl 3y agoSo like IRC? It's not like this was a new problem, we've had this problem in the past. Not everybody liked mailing lists/forums 20 years ago either.
- eddythompson80 3y agoSure, like IRC but with a better interface,
- TylerE 3y agoAnd no netsplits/nickserv insanity.
- Operyl 3y agoOr people purchasing a holding company and proceeding to take over the entire volunteer ran network a few years later. :)
- eddythompson80 3y agoLuckily since there is no expectation of an archive, migration is fairly straightforward if there is an alternative. If there are no alternatives, I guess they can try IRC ;)
- RadiozRadioz 3y agoBetter? Sure, for you maybe. Overwhelmingly the word I'd use to describe Discord's interface is "one". There is one interface. It's an interface that most people seem to like, but we've lost an important freedom there. It's against the EULA to modify your client or use an alternative one. If with IRC one can have any interface, I would not call Discord's better.
- eddythompson80 3y agoMaybe it changed, but how do you share a screenshot on IRC?
- RadiozRadioz 3y agoUse Pidgin or The Lounge and do it like normal. Whether we should be using text chat clients as FTP clients is another issue, XMPP is better for multimedia messaging.
- voyagerfan5761 3y agoSome modern clients (or clients-as-services) build in image/file sharing.
- Forgotthepass8 3y agoIRC had a higher barrier to entry and a lot more common expectation of kickbans for various reasons (justified or not). Plus the concept of +v doesn't really exist on discords. Sometimes you'd be stuck lurking while only a select few could speak. And frankly being able to embed images/videos degrades the seriousness in various ways as it can become a bit of a meme/comedy competition (and they scroll disproportionately more text off. And avatars mean less space is actually text.. <[@+]?shortnick>: <text> is pretty much the optimal format for information density, which is ironic that twitch chat uses it (to mostly spam emotes)
- TylerE 3y agoSome degree of informational amensia is a good thing. We've all hit the "I need to do X, but every page on google tells me how to X in Version N-1, and it doesn't work like that any more".
- bmacho 3y agoI don't understand your example. How does "informational amnesia" help against "I need to do X, but every page on google tells me how to X in Version N-1, and it doesn't work like that any more"? If you can't find a solution, you should ask on the Q&A channel, regardless of informational amnesia or not.
- RHSeeger 3y ago> There is no expectation that someone will search the chat history At least part of that is that the search in Discord is horrifyingly bad, and isn't available via search engines. I don't mine Discord as a place to ask questions / discuss; but it's far less dysfunctional when combined with a wiki.