Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week
by dangus on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:10PM
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- Has forum channels now
- The chat literally isn’t ephemeral. It is saved forever and you can search it.
- Bots and webhooks. Communities can have very advanced functionality there. Applications can interact with the Discord API and do a huge variety of things. For example, I have a bot installed that sends alerts for free game sales on PC game platforms.
- Multiple Voice/video/streaming channels in the same server. You can manage huge real time social events.
- Cross-server socialization. You can make friends in one community and interact with the same people in other communities with no friction.
- No registration friction. You can join other servers (forums) without making another account.
I’d make the argument that you’re backwards on this. Forums are a poor substitute for Discord or any similar product. If you started with Discord and decided to migrate your community to a forum solution you’d be looking at lost functionality.
People seem to cite lack of Google-searchability as the main downside with Discord but the people who use it don’t actually need that. In fact you could easily get around it: for example, you could make a Discord channel for support that automatically creates GitHub issues out of Discord messages.
- The chat literally isn’t ephemeral. It is saved forever and you can search it.
- Bots and webhooks. Communities can have very advanced functionality there. Applications can interact with the Discord API and do a huge variety of things. For example, I have a bot installed that sends alerts for free game sales on PC game platforms.
- Multiple Voice/video/streaming channels in the same server. You can manage huge real time social events.
- Cross-server socialization. You can make friends in one community and interact with the same people in other communities with no friction.
- No registration friction. You can join other servers (forums) without making another account.
I’d make the argument that you’re backwards on this. Forums are a poor substitute for Discord or any similar product. If you started with Discord and decided to migrate your community to a forum solution you’d be looking at lost functionality.
People seem to cite lack of Google-searchability as the main downside with Discord but the people who use it don’t actually need that. In fact you could easily get around it: for example, you could make a Discord channel for support that automatically creates GitHub issues out of Discord messages.