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0 pointstaylodl2y ago0 comments

But does that scale? It's one thing building an online community serving 100-5,000 users. It's quite a different thing to build an online community serving 100,000-10,000,000 users.

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growingentropy2y ago

Absolutely not. The noise of a Discord server of that size would be immense. The substance would quickly be lost to the non-stop noise.

brucethemoose22y ago

It scales horribly.

But that has not stopped some servers from exploding in size. And its "fine" if you are just trying to shoot the breeze or shout into the void, not look for specific information (which is truly horrendous) or answer FAQ (which is even more horrendous than reddit).

acmecorps2y ago

Also discord stuff are not searchable publicly. The experience is completely different, it's not even comparable.

bhouston2y ago

It doesn't scale, but most communities are not 100,000+ users. Most communities are relatively small.

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