“I will never go back, it’s way better on Discord.”

One of Reddit’s biggest communities is suggesting users move to Discord r/malefashionadvice, the biggest Reddit community still inaccessible in protest of Reddit’s new API pricing, is encouraging its users to congregate on Discord and view guides on Substack.

  • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    Discord is VERY different from link/thread aggregators/forums such as Reddit and Lemmy. I just don’t understand subreddits that move to Discord.

    /r/buildapcsales/ has an official Discord server now, and it just sucks compared to Reddit’s format.

    Also, Discord doesn’t show up in search results for if people are trying to find an answer for something. And the search in the Discord servers sucks for this kind of thing as well.

    Elaborating on /r/buildapcsales specifically with earlier comment:

    Using the search in the subreddit lets you see what the price is usually on sale at, and around what time of year. Sometimes the current sale isn’t worth buying. People would comment in the threads mentioning that.

    You can also read everyone’s comments on that specific product in either the current thread or the old ones to see if it’s worth buying or not for yourself.

    Do note that a lot of these have 30-100 comments that are helpful for users to read.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Discord actually has “Forum” channels that work like Reddit. You can create posts and search for them. So if you use Discord right you could more or less recreate Subreddits inside a single Discord server.

      Not a fan of them moving to Discord instead of Lemmy, but anyway, fuck Reddit.

      • Retro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        1 year ago

        I didn’t know about Forum channels, thanks for the heads-up. Are they crawled by search engines, though? I feel like with people deleting their reddit posts and moving to discord, it’s already becoming a lot harder to find information online.

        • Vlyn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          Considering you don’t find Discord server logs on Google I’d say: No.

          Discord is its own thing.

          Google results have been down the drain for years, the only reasonable results I found were by appending reddit or site:reddit.com. Now even that is gone :-/

          • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Duckduckgo and Brave Search often shows Reddit results for me even without site:reddit.com. Though now because of how Lemmy works with all of these instances, we can’t easily use site: anymore. Hoping that search crawlers will be able to just index Lemmy/Kbin instances fine to pull the results in search engines in the future.

      • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        So if you use Discord right you could more or less recreate Subreddits inside a single Discord server.

        I am part of some Discord servers that utilizes this. Downside is that it doesn’t have comment threads which might be one of the things that made Reddit popular. Also, because Discord is more meant to use for chatting, people type a lot of non-productive stuff that you have to go through instead of filtering from top/best comments. Servers that have slow mode turned on (can only send a message every # of mins) to help still has this issue as well.

      • DrQuint@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Aside from the “not searchable from the outside” thing, another HUGE point against it is no branching comment threads. It’s all classic style quoting.

        Plus, at least from the perspective of actual personal discord usage (as opposed to “official community” usage), the fact forums are not available unless if a discord server has a permanent open invite link on their server list and more than a certain amount of people gives the whole forum thing a bad taste. We just want to organize some stuff internally without opening up to people we don’t know where they came from. But you can’t even Boost to get access to the feature. We’re active enough thay we’re always getting access to new features months early compared to other servers, just not the stuff that’s meant for schools and company “owned” servers I guess.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If Discord could have the forums be published to a website so it shows up in search results then that’d be a huge step forward.

    • voidMainVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      They probably already know how to use Discord, so they think that it’s easier to migrate their community to a service that they already understand vs. researching an alternative, learning how it works, and then trying to migrate their community.

      Also, a lot of their members are probably on Discord already, so you don’t have to try to convince them to sign up for a new service on top of everything else I mentioned earlier.

    • Drgon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Sales seems like one of those things that makes sense for Discord, most of them are time limited so no need for an archive to search through

      • Salix@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Using the search in the subreddit lets you see what the price is usually on sale at, and around what time of year. Sometimes the current sale isn’t worth buying. People would comment in the threads mentioning that.

        You can also read everyone’s comments on that specific product in either the current thread or the old ones to see if it’s worth buying or not for yourself.

        Do note that a lot of these have 30-100 comments that are helpful for users to read.