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I hope this change gives more people pause about stuffing the entirety of their projects online presence into Discord. It sucks for search engine indexing and

• xeonmc 3y ago
  Zig is probably the worst offender of this, especially exacerbated by the lack of adequate documentation.
• Etheryte 3y ago
  This may sound odd, but it sounds like the tragedy of a project's success. In the old days you would often find help on an IRC channel, but it worked out, because they were not very busy. These days if your project blows up, no matter what platform you use, you will be overrun with questions because there's just more people jumping on the next hot thing.
• chatmasta 3y ago
  On the other hand, it's a lot better than Slack which charges you to search through all your messages in a channel. At least in Discord you can search all messages, even if you can't find them directly from a search engine. One simple solution to this would be a Discord bot that publishes a log of all messages in a channel to a website, thus making them indexable by Google. This used to be common practice for IRC channels and you'd sometimes find an answer to a programming question in the published logs of some IRC server. Of course, an even better solution would be for Discord to offer this natively to server admins. Give them an option to make their channel indexable by search engines, and then mirror all the posts to a subdomain. It could even be a funnel for Discord since they could get new users to signup when they land on an answer and need to signup to ask a follow-up question. It could also be a wedge to compete more directly with Reddit.