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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by xp84 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:04AM (#36432366)
To be super fair too, if you compare Discord to forums, (the thing lots of communities were using before Reddit) in terms of whether it’s good at managing a large discussion, remember when there would be a thread with 19 pages? People would be challenged to find the actually useful post on page 5 when there were dozens of pages on an active thread.

So it’s a slight reassurance, although I feel like still the difference is Google would index those, so you could be landed right on the interesting page. With discord, an hour after the brilliant point was made, it’s essentially lost for everyone but whoever was looking at the chat when it happened :( so I guess my point is… it’s not so bad, but actually it’s pretty bad.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by brucethemoose2 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:06AM (#36433267)
Discord could fix this with some kind of suggestion as you type... But why would they? Its resource intense and reduces engagement.
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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by riversflow on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:56AM (#36434166)
> an hour after the brilliant point was made, it’s essentially lost.

This is what pins are for.

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by xp84 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:01PM (#36437097)
Not exactly scalable though, would you eventually have 10000 pins after 5 years and let people search (using a good search engine) across those only to avoid the noise of 1000 matching chat messages of idle speculation and uninformed wrongness? In Reddit the useful posts would have been upvoted, and then the post would have been indexed by google. I don’t see a compelling comparison here for a case like “how do I get (Device name) working in Home Assistant”
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