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  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldditch discord!
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    5 months ago

    If I know the community exists, I can narrow the search on Google

    Doesn’t work most of the time for my communities.

    And if the community I’m looking for is regarding something I’m working on, I’m not putting discord on my work laptop, so shit outta luck

    Sounds like a personal problem you don’t want to work around.


  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldditch discord!
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    5 months ago

    One tries to be a flexible, interoperable, and secure protocol for communication, that’s free for anyone to implement and use…

    The other is a for-profit company that cherishes its centralized nature and far reaching control, allowing them to sell you random bells and whistles, collect your data unobstructed, and lure in investors and advertisers.

    Barely anyone cares about any of this. This stuff will never outweigh the features and QoL Discord has over everything else.







  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldNever again
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    5 months ago

    What even is “relevancy”? Their search is just a search by matching keywords. There isn’t a magic algorithm discord uses. Every time I had an issue with some sort of bug or function I just search for specific keywords and 9/10 times I find something. On the odd-chance I don’t then I’ll behave like a human being and ask. I just don’t get what’s wrong with that? You can already limit those keyword searches with specific constraints so you don’t get much noise.


  • CliveRosfield@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldNever again
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    5 months ago

    There are issues of course. I’m just of the view that answering questions and giving support to a project is perfectly fine on discord because of incredibly fast response times.

    As a developer you really only have bandwidth for maybe one or two methods of communication until you get stretched far too thin. Discord combines threads and irc chats into one. That is incredibly productive from a support standpoint.

    To me this is nothing different than asking someone to join an irc server for technical help. Most of the irc servers I followed no longer exist but the projects are still fine and they’ve managed. If anything it’s better because you actually have a search feature.