Comment on Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server

emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It got popular because it’s excellent for gaming communities. Not for code base discussion.

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• Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because stupid people use it, and unfortunately people using it are most.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Agreed. Discord is a chatroom not a forum.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because you can make a Discord server with a few clicks. It’s super easy. I wish more people used things indexable by search engines too, but you really can’t deny how incredibly easy Discord is from the side of the people wanting to set up something.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can make a lemmy community in a few clicks if you don’t want to run your own instance.

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  • Nighed@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And everyone already has an account, they can just press a button to join the server and be interacting straight away.

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  • Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can you show me your discord server? Is it in the room with us? I think discord owns all the discord servers but that’s just me…

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I am using the terminology Discord uses. I am aware it is not a server in the traditional sense. Be angry with them, not me.

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• endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Discord is a superb chat room with voice chat and screen share.

  Most of the userbase is too young to know forums exist.

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• Wooki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place.

  Because its more than a bunch of posts, its voice comms and thats more useful. So find a platform that does both and maybe people change, maybe. More likely we will have to wait for IPO and enshitification before that happens.

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