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Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations by babypuncher on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:05PM (#32840885)
Discord has a low barrier to entry and continued use.

With a single account, I can join a dozen communities and easily stay up to date with them, and get an instant notification on my phone or desktop when someone answers a question I asked in any of them.

To do the same with a dozen phpbb communities, I need to create a dozen accounts and track each site individually.

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Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations by pier25 on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:41PM (#32841436)
> easily stay up to date with them

How do you stay up to date when there are thousands and thousands of messages generated per day or even per hour?

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Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations by babypuncher on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @05:50PM (#32843891)
You can control what triggers a notification on a per-server and even per-channel basis. For most big servers, I have everything set to mute except for when people @ me directly or respond to one of my messages.
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Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations by matkoniecz on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @03:58PM (#32842545)
Aggressive muting of channels and servers.
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