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Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by MatthiasPortzel on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:39AM (#32459612)
The primary use case that we’re talking about is that someone has a common error, in which case they can put that error message into Discord search and read conversation about previous errors. Discord search is perfectly adequate for that use case.
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Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by andybak on Sunday August 14, 2022 @01:50PM (#32461299)
That's fairly close to my use case for which Discord fails miserably.

But let's not get stuck on this point. There's a dozen other reasons why Discord shouldn't be used for technical forums

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Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by 9935c101ab17a66 on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:04AM (#32466356)
I don’t love that projects use discord now, but I don’t hate it either. Beyond the crappy search, what other reasons make discord a bad fit for technical forums? What’s your preferred solution?
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Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by andybak on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:20AM (#32467877)
My question was driven by the fact I don't have a preferred solution that would suit both technical and non-technical users.

But as for why Discord is a bad fit - it's completely opaque to search engines, it requires an invite, it has a fairly complex UI and it's basically "unstructured chat". Threads are an afterthought and don't come close to giving any proper structure.

I want chat for people that, you know, want to chat - but structured posts with topics and categories are needed for any sane, long term knowledge-base.

People on chat (this goes for IRC as well) will continually ask the same questions and you will continually have to answer them again because there's no structure.

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Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by antifa on Sunday August 14, 2022 @12:05PM (#32460354)
The primary use case is actually googling the error, in which discord falls flat on it's face.

Every external chat room logs service I've seen has also had bad SEO, buggy, bad UI/UX, etc..

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