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To be fair, they have Forum Channels.
That is an improvement for sure. The problem remains, though, that the info is locked in Discord and won’t show up on search engines.
Yes, but to be fair once again, some might see it as a good thing because it might drive up engagement and discourage lurking. I.e., if you already went through the trouble of creating an account, then why not post or comment?
Oh, that’s kinda neat actually.
Yeah, the only problem is that even a forum channel would require you to create a Discord account and find that server before you can even see its content and that’s just not acceptable for massive open communities like r/malefashionadvice that seems to be moving to Discord.
Yeah, I’ll be sticking with Lemmy anyhow but I have to admit it’s a cool feature
I think discoverability is still a problem.
I use Discord for real-time communication, but leaving a platform that’s closing up access for a platform with already closed access makes no sense to me. It doesn’t solve the original problem.
Ditto! I think mass participation forums (e.g. r/malefashionadvice) should always be searchable without first having to create an account, find a particular server, join it and then search there. This is just an incredibly slow and ineffective way compared to just doing a search for
my problem site:reddit.comin your favorite search engine.
