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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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