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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by msabalau on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:47AM (#36432972)
Discord is great for chatting and hanging out and playing and discussing what is new.

Forum features are important to forum use cases. They are irrelevant when you don't care about that.

It would be odd if a librarian asked "why are people hanging out at bars and restaurants, they are not good as we are at archiving information" Your question about Discord is similarly odd.

A more useful question may be "why are forums so bad at what they do, that people would rather use Discord for something it's not great at"

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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by bovermyer on Thursday June 22, 2023 @11:43AM (#36433928)
My point is that saying Discord is universally better than forums ignores context and is not a useful comparison.
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Re:Discord is opening the monetization floodgates with micro... by johnnyanmac on Friday June 23, 2023 @12:33AM (#36442802)
TBF, you're ignoring their context.It's clear they aren't saying it's the best archival service that lets you search for anything in seconds.

They clearly want a place of community and Discord gives that.

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