[toveja]

To those interested in discussion outside of HN, there is a discord community [0] with professional, academic, and hobby fusion afficionados.

[0] https://discord.gg/Rcum9zkBtg

[LegitShady]

Discord is a black hole in the internet. People have discussions you can't search for and isn't indexed on Google etc.

It's convenient but it's worse than a forum for creating knowledge people can search through later. It's a shame it's used for such interesting discussion.

[shadowofneptune]

It's a chat room. The conversations are disposable, it is part of the medium. Having a record of discussion is not really what interests me about instant messaging.

[toveja]

Thanks for pointing that out. What would be your suggestion/alternatives?

[krallja]

> it's worse than a forum for creating knowledge people can search through later

A forum.

[willis936]

I personally like reddit for public discussions. r/fusion used to be a ghost town with crackpots a few years. These days there are occasional good discussions and the crackpots are chased off.

[_dain_]

> People have discussions you can't search for and isn't indexed on Google etc.

this is a feature not a bug. the real problem is lack of user ownership over data, not lack of searchability.