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If you don’t run a discord, one of your users will “helpfully” start one anyway and the community will go there. You’ve then lost control of your Q&A forum.
by david2ndaccount 3y ago
If you don’t run a discord, one of your users will “helpfully” start one anyway and the community will go there. You’ve then lost control of your Q&A forum.
- croes 3y agoOr they start a subreddit because you only have Discord
- brucethemoose2 3y agoSo many project subreddits are just dead and sterile. And Discord is a much more engaging place to just shoot the breeze. TBH a Reddit isn't much of a "threat" unless its a really popular subject and the original forum is really bad.
- croes 3y ago>So many project subreddits are just dead and sterile. And Discord is a much more engaging place to just shoot the breeze. The same could happen with amy Discord. No users means no users, no matter if it's Discord or Reddit But I can find and read a subreddit via search engine without joining anything.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoOh, you are preaching to the choir, I am not arguing against Reddit. Discord is an information wasteland. But if users want to start and join one to shoot the breeze, I think they are mostly going to pick Dsicord.
- koonsolo 3y agoCan you give a real life example of this? I have both an official Discord and Reddit. Discord was the only platform I didn't start myself, but eventually took over. My Reddit is as good as dead, Discord incredibly active. The theory all sounds good, but the fact is that the community will pick the place they hang out, not you.
- croes 3y ago>The theory all sounds good, but the fact is that the community will pick the place they hang out, not you. The same will happen with Discord's successor, but the Discord data will most likely be lost at that time.
- koonsolo 3y agoExperience also taught me this.