The support forums for Affinity (a photo shop alternative) were moved to Discord. I tried asking one question and got hate because it was a common question. Bro, we are on discord, I am not scrolling through 10000 messages to see if anyone asked this.
Discord is one of the least information dense social networks I have ever used. Finding useful information and meaningful conversation feels like a cross between navigating my health insurance’s phone tree and being surrounded by people with megaphones making low effort jokes to each other in a library as I try to find a book on a shelf.
The fact that people choose to use Discord for communities around complex technical things and then choose to get mad when people have difficulty using it is absurd. It really is this mass delusion that the architecture through how we interact is meaningless even though everything everyone is discussing comes back to the importance of architecture in other contexts…
I know I’m saying the same thing to probably the same people, but traditional forums were way better at this sort of thing. Lemmy is better in some ways but it’s still strongly biased toward recent content rather than old but still relevant content. In any case, Discord is a terrible replacement.
Yeah, I get where people on both sides are coming from.
On one hand, writing up documentation in a wiki or something is work, and if someone has answered a question, then one can just search for it. And people have used mailing list archives like this successfully.
But on the other hand, nobody just tells someone to go dig through IRC logs as a knowledge store for a project, and my limited experience has been that Discord is closer to that. Reddit is okay as a knowledge source, close enough to the mailing list archives.
Discord wiped the vast majority out in an intergalactic war and we are communicating through a resistance network that is picking up the pieces.
The support forums for Affinity (a photo shop alternative) were moved to Discord. I tried asking one question and got hate because it was a common question. Bro, we are on discord, I am not scrolling through 10000 messages to see if anyone asked this.
Discord is one of the least information dense social networks I have ever used. Finding useful information and meaningful conversation feels like a cross between navigating my health insurance’s phone tree and being surrounded by people with megaphones making low effort jokes to each other in a library as I try to find a book on a shelf.
The fact that people choose to use Discord for communities around complex technical things and then choose to get mad when people have difficulty using it is absurd. It really is this mass delusion that the architecture through how we interact is meaningless even though everything everyone is discussing comes back to the importance of architecture in other contexts…
I know I’m saying the same thing to probably the same people, but traditional forums were way better at this sort of thing. Lemmy is better in some ways but it’s still strongly biased toward recent content rather than old but still relevant content. In any case, Discord is a terrible replacement.
Yeah, I get where people on both sides are coming from.
On one hand, writing up documentation in a wiki or something is work, and if someone has answered a question, then one can just search for it. And people have used mailing list archives like this successfully.
But on the other hand, nobody just tells someone to go dig through IRC logs as a knowledge store for a project, and my limited experience has been that Discord is closer to that. Reddit is okay as a knowledge source, close enough to the mailing list archives.