[poolnoodle]

I absolutely despise Discord for anything more than a couple of friends chatting. It is the worst way to have discussions with a large group of people that I can think of because you have to wade through so many junk messages to read anything of interest.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Discord can be great when people treat it properly. That is, treat it as IRC for the modern age, rather than a replacement for forums.

Just like in IRC, you probably don't care about most messages. You don't need to be in every conversation. But it can be a great way to just jump into a live conversation or start a new one.

[eukara]

Just like IRC. Except 1 giant server, 1 owner logging everything. Don't ask how it sustains itself though. It still doesn't. People let their guard down in such lax environments and many even run their entire business comms on an unencrypted app as a result too. People should know better.

In a lot of ways, this is a major regression as far as security and redundancy is concerned.

There's also the good old saying: Don't build your castle in somebody else's Kingdom. Bot developers definitely learned that recently. I don't have a lot of pity for bot developers though as many are truly, in fact, scraping data and doing other undocumented things with it (Spy Pet wasn't and won't be the only one). All I'm going to say on the matter!

[orbital-decay]

>1 owner logging everything.

Everything in Discord is also filtered through a classifier or a generative model, so their provider also has access.

[thefz]

> Discord can be great when people treat it properly. That is, treat it as IRC for the modern age, rather than a replacement for forums.

For certain needs, like support, forums are abysmal too. See Unraid as an example. Got a problem? Drill through ten different 20-page long discussions with no clear answer.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Alternatively, they tell you "use the search function" despite it being well-known how terrible it is.