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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's only trapped on Discord if one refuses to ever join Discord. Most people playing games use Discord, so that's not a real issue for them.

Making things searchable, such as problems and solutions, is dependent on how well managed a community is; over the years I've had plenty of issues trying to find something on a forum simply because something like keywords, and tagging didn't exist or wasn't enforced, or bug reports were regelated to a single forum thread.

The same it is with Discord. If you're smart you'll create a "forum" channel for bug and issue reports and force users to use tags as a rule.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Funnily enough, I actually don't dislike discord as a platform, I've even built servers that have grown to hundreds and thousands of users. I'm also well aware of the attempts discord has made at rectifying the issues I outlined. That being said, it is absolutely a walled-garden and whenever discord's servers are taken offline, countless amounts of information will go with them. At least with forums or a lot of other platforms, people can easily archive the info, not so much with discord.

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