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I disagree about the goodness of discord (and facebook) compared to old style forums or (better yet) mailing lists with archives. Searching the forum archives
by hoistbypetard 1y ago
I disagree about the goodness of discord (and facebook) compared to old style forums or (better yet) mailing lists with archives.
Searching the forum archives is much worse with facebook, slack or discord than it ever was with even the jankiest phpbb forum or mailman list. Hell, before they grew it up, Yahoo! groups were better from that perspective. And a big part of what made forums for either tech or non-tech hobbies so nice was the ability to search and reference prior discussions.
I was actually hopeful that "login with facebook" and "login with discord" would bring those more search-friendly alternatives back a little bit, but so far I haven't seen it.
- rchaud 1y agoOn forums you can search by username, by topic alone, inside of a subforum, or by text inside of a thread. That level of search granularity is by design so you aren't querying the entire database unnecessarily. As a result it's far better than "omnisearch" options on social media that only sometimes surfaces what you were looking for.