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One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

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[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree that Discord is a bad replacement for web forums, but you can search in any server that you belong to.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So in your opinion, if I search discord for

virsh # start win10-ts1-1507 error: Failed to start domain win10-ts1-1507 error: Cannot access storage file '/media/wenzel/OSWatcher/vms/win10-ts1-1507.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:108): Permission denied

How likely would I be to get someone with the same problem and a solution?

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would depend on which server you're searching in.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it just be nuts if I could search multiple different discord servers at the same time? And it would show me a bunch of different results on the same screen? If only something would get invented.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

It would also be nice if you didn't have to join a server to search within it – you could have a page that searches all servers and shows you results. Maybe one day...

[–] oppai420@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that you belong to

This is the issue. You need to log in, and join the server in order to access this information. Idk if it is still true, but there was a limit to the number of people who could join these communities. Which further complicates access to this information.

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, somehow people got the idea I was saying this was good or comparable to the Web. It definitely isn't. Saying that there is no search is wrong, though.

[–] oppai420@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Fair. However, at least to me, the way you worded it seemed to be missing the point of the person you replied to. Yes, you can search a discord server, but they aren't able to be indexed by search engines in the way that forums can which is what I believe was the point he was trying to get across.