Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing
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They probably don't intentionally use it to store information so much as quickly and conveniently exchange answers and questions. Forums have evidently proven inadequate for that purpose, so unless people find a better solution and make it stick, the lesson sure won't.
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Catch me firing up Mumble again
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information available to few is still more than information available to none
If discord didnt exist, that information would just be elsewhere like proper forums, it doesnt disappear magically.
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I agree, but I understand the temptation. It can take your company from 0 to 100 almost instantly, since you have the budget to hire social media and SEO experts to take you to that magical "viral" status. Not doing this often means toiling in obscurity and never going anywhere. If you do manage to make enough money for your whole team to quit their day jobs, then it almost certainly took longer.
Quick and easy path leads to the Dark Side.
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"We have these delicious carrots."
"I ONLY WANT CABBAGE THAT'S BEEN SITTING OUT FOR A WEEK!"
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Gotta go for the ventrillo rofflecopter going soi soi.
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It's about money, specifically with a near-term "exit strategy" for investors.
It lets them push the company into choices that will pump up the stock price so that early shareholders can sell their stock and walk away with profits... without any concern over how those choices will impact the company, its employees, its customers, or the new shareholders in the long term.
I won't shed a tear for Discord, though. They are a parasitic corporation that extracts profit from the world's online communities by using the network effect to lock our communications and collected knowledge behind their terms of service. No company should have control over so much of humanity's cultural development and history.
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It's an actual platform. It's basically FOSS discord.
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it can't. it does most things ok, but if I had to move my communities there, it would be hellish to get stuff running the way discord runs them.
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Matrix needs more time in the oven before it's ready for widespread adoption.
I really did try to make it work (for months) but it's a buggy and unpolished experience, everyone that tried it with me ended up going back to Discord and Signal for communication.
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Discord probably not, but there are many that could.
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Oh but there's a shit ton of documentation that's only available on discord and that's not searchable anywhere and that will just be wiped out of discord ever dies.
Forums are the best for knowledge accumulation via user interactions, Reddit like platforms are second and then you've got whatever discord is and regular chat rooms...
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Pay $5 to send 50 messages per month. Then an additional $1 for every fifth message.
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Its even less organized
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Well, you have one part right: it won't disappear magically. If it does, it will do so quite naturally, unless someone actively preserves it, e.g. by archiving the chat histories.
Of course, you might mean the people with the knowledge that wrote those histories in the first place. You know, the people that used Discord instead of forums. The people that left forums. The people that apparently didn't want to use forums.
Why would you assume they'd move to forums? Clearly there was some reason they chose to use Discord, so why wouldn't they just find a replacement?
Discord isn't the issue. I mean, Discord has plenty of issues, but this particular one is a cultural one. Unless we find a way to entice people back to forums (or some other publically indexable platform), they'll just keep going elsewhere.
So maybe instead of condemning Discord we should ask "Why do people prefer it?" Then we can figure out how to address that and actually do something about the root of the issue.
