Discord, or the Death of Lore

Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by dfxm12 on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:57PM (#35051369)

Discord has its place, especially for game communities or other such personal things

I'm not sure Discord is necessarily good for "gaming communities". I mean, Discord is live chat. This is good for some aspects: match making, news, etc. - anything that has a short lifespan. However, a lot of things about games don't. Wikis are perfect for publishing this info. Think of a Street Fighter type game. Characters have their move set, that doesn't change. Imagine having to search through discord for how to do a fireball with Ryu. Then there's strategy - that changes, albeit periodically, after tournaments, etc. By all means, this stuff can be discussed in discord, but the consensus strategies have to be published because it's a terrible experience to search through chat logs and follow along with long finished conversations over who knows how many posts, figure out context, etc. compared to just reading it on a wiki.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by the_af on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:11PM (#35051463)

Agreed.

I see Discord being used for things where forums (and non realtime conversations) used to rule supreme, like hobbies, tutorials, etc.

Why? A tutorial is not a real time chat. A showcase of hobby projects isn't a real time conversation either. And the searchability of these tools like Discord is terrible. I really don't understand why this terrible thing became popular.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by Panzer04 on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:29PM (#35051559)

I guess I should be clearer - I'm more referring to multiplayer communities rather than actual game-specific resources. Communities, rather than knowledge resources, are where it's appropriate, basically. Of course, these often end up bleeding into eachother over time.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by Klonoar on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:08AM (#35052849)

You would be surprised by the FGC entities that seemingly gravitate towards this very thing.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by Claude_Shannon on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:38AM (#35053421)

Most FGC servers solve this by having character channels with the best guides pinned.

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by noirscape on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:37AM (#35054210)

Those communities iirc nowadays operate a dual mediawiki + discord server. Dustloop (arcsys, Guilty Gear & BlazBlue mostly) for example didn't vanish entirely to Discord, the discord is instead just used to organize edits to the wiki if I recall.

Discord is absolutely terrible at storing semi-structured information like a wikipage and I don't see them fix that without completely overhauling their entire service (although I'm sure they'll try and muck up the death of publicly available knowledge even more).

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Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore by BlueTemplar on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:48AM (#35054296)

GP mentions "lore", that has not been deliberately condensed to a wiki. A forum works much better for lore : to search and reply years later to some very specific question / answer.

(I guess wiki comments and especially talk pages can work too, but they are terrible and not the place for community discussion.)

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