Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown
by andybak on Monday August 15, 2022 @06:20AM
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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.
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.