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My friend group also jumped to that first, unless it's federated though it's not going to be "like discord" enough in the long run.
Part of what makes discord so good to many is that it's one app where you can connect to various different friend groups/modding groups/artists/etc...
Matrix does allow that with its federation model, ts6 does not 🤷
i HATE when i have to connect to other discords for that purpose. finding information on discord is the worse of all possible outcomes. if i am running into trouble i much prefer a searchable forum. as for different friend groups, i think team speak has the ability to save multiple friend groups servers.
Idk what you people are smoking, forums built in search functionality was always ass.
However results showing up in search indexes were fantastic. I have a whole rant about that in another thread already. My rant: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/23704903
the rant was basically summed up as: “i think forums are archaic and i feel the ability to search them was bad
i think that discord has a much better system because the devs can answer people’s questions directly.”
except my experience with these discords results in: me asking the question, a bot or some person states that the devs no longer answers questions due to having to answer the same questions over and over and to use the search function. the search function pulls up every time the key word is mentioned but not the context or resolution, and i end up having to read the time line, including random people chiming in with their own questions and now i am tracking who is talking to which person in tandem on the same chat, and some times they cross, some times other people come in to give their 2 bits, sometimes it’s starts an argument or is wrong, it irrelevant. an absolute fucking nightmare.
with a forum, i am usually directed there via a google search, it’s a sub division of the topics forum specifically created by the person with the question, the responses of everyone are for the topics exclusive benefit, and if there is arguments or wrong info, everyone can easily point it out without missing it in real time. and when the topic is either resolved, or given up on the topic ends. it’s not used for other people’s problems at any point.
Absolutely incorrect, incredible
you are as helpful as a discord support chat, congratulations, you can sit there and be smug that it suddenly means you are right in your own head