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0 pointsWowfunhappy3y ago0 comments

> the difference is that they are betting on the fact that right now there is no immediately obvious alternative, like Reddit was to Digg a decade ago.

Discord.

I know, I know—it's built for real-time chat, it's harder to search, etc etc... but a lot of subreddits already have associated Discord servers. I could see a lot of communities naturally migrating there. Maybe as a temporary stop-gap, maybe permanently.

Younger people in particular seems to use Discord for things I would think belong on a forum.

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Panzer043y ago· 2 in thread

Discord won't make it. I find reddit useful because for any particular query I want a mostly user-based answer for I can google term + reddit. Discord jsut doesn't have the same discourse because it's designed for quick back-and-forth chats, not more in-depth self-supporting commentary.

It just doesn't fulfill the same purpose. IME, I ignore discords from most subreddits because they do basically nothing for me unless it's a topic i'm extremely interested and engaged in.

moneywoes3y ago

What about discord threads?

Panzer043y ago

More a way for already engaged users to start another conversation while in the same channel. It doesn't serve the same purpose as reddit.

Regardless of anything discord does, the lack of searchability will always be a core problem compared to reddit.

gremlinsinc3y ago

if discord were smart they'd create some sort of built in wiki system or news aggregating and multi group search to essentially merge discord with Reddit like services..

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