pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[–] dugite_code@mastodon.social 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

@Kedly
@onlinepersona

It's a private silo with no public indexing by search. Makes it terrible for technical topics fine for a chat platform.

It's a bad hybrid of chat and forum. None of the advantages of rich forum posts and typically too may participants for it to be easy to follow. Noticeable if you are not in the main timezone as the others.

Discord has threads and topics, but these features are a bolted on afterthought instead of core functionality so it just doesn't work as well

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ah, so the hate is mostly for it being used for things that it wasnt really built for. I can get that

[–] technom@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly!

[–] premeena@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

I think the thread(s) aren't that hard to navigate or search in - assuming everything else has been set by admins properly (rarely the case). YMMV. Third-party ticketing/integration bots with major services are seamless, but or course depends on your use case.