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Discord community servers can already be searched and discovered. Which is effectively what this is about. I suspect you are more talking about the conversation

Discord community servers can already be searched and discovered. Which is effectively what this is about. I suspect you are more talking about the conversation on discord? I don't think the actual chat conversations need to be indexed, in fact as a platform for chat I appreciate discord for what it is. though irc also worked fine for me back in the day. What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside. For some topics and subjects that is fine. But for support for software (even open source) I feel that it is a loss and actually has contributed to a decline of information availability on the internet.

squigz 2y ago
> What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside. Which would, of course, be solved by having those conversations indexed and searchable on the web.
lxgr 2y ago
> Discord community servers can already be searched and discovered. By those that have an account and that know on which "servers" to find the content they're looking for. > What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside. And that's exactly the problem. Discord is a great Teamspeak successor (I suppose; I've never used that). It's a horrible substitute for a bug tracker, development roadmap, forum, release announcement feed etc.

squigz 2y ago

> What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside. Which would, of course, be solved by having those conversations indexed and searchable on the web.

lxgr 2y ago

> Discord community servers can already be searched and discovered. By those that have an account and that know on which "servers" to find the content they're looking for. > What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside. And that's exactly the problem. Discord is a great Teamspeak successor (I suppose; I've never used that). It's a horrible substitute for a bug tracker, development roadmap, forum, release announcement feed etc.