Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro...
by AnonCoward42 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @07:33AM
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I think Discord is well placed as an ephemeral chat environment, but really bad as a sort of community knowledge database or even for discourse (something that goes beyond flame wars of course, both do fine on that front).
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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro...
by Ekaros on Thursday June 22, 2023 @08:00AM
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I wonder if there was a room for something between Wiki and Google Docs. A place where community could build content and allow it to be shared online. With effective collaborative tools and access control.
So that more permanent information could be made and stored in suitable format.
Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro...
by noirbot on Thursday June 22, 2023 @09:30AM
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Plenty of Discord communities are offshoots of wikis or websites that publish their Discord-workshopped information in public places. There's this assumption that crops up on here a lot that Discord being a more walled garden somehow prohibits people from linking to/from other content that is indexed/public.
Having a canonical set of public-facing info, and then discussing the changes/updates to it in an ephemeral place seems generally fine for most communities, and that's what many of them do on Discord.