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Re:Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord by shaburn on Thursday November 17, 2022 @05:59PM (#33647173)
It's the worst. They are blackholes for information and search is funcitonally non-existent.
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Re:Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord by porphyra on Thursday November 17, 2022 @06:33PM (#33647530)
Discord search is actually great but you are right that the information is invisible to Google search and other external search engines. Likewise, at my company, a huge amount of knowhow is stored in internal chat logs. This sort of knowledge is the true "deep web" --- unindexable and unsearchable.
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Re:Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord by Firmwarrior on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:52AM (#33653873)
Yeah, man, it's going to be tragic when discord shuts down at some point and all that knowledge just disappears forever
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Re:Launch HN: Dots (YC S21) – Bot Builder for Discord by ls15 on Saturday November 19, 2022 @01:43AM (#33667663)
The information is also often locked behind login walls. That accounts can be created for free (for most people) does not mean that the information is freely accessible.
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