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[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I never understood the move to synchronous communication for asynchronous questions. The ephemeral nature of discord is really a PITA. It’s like using IRC for a FAQ.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago

Discord is honestly the most awful way to create a helpful community.

It’s a great way to give the 20 most active members of the community someplace to trample on top of newbies trying to get questions answered.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

It makes sense if the issues being discussed are time-sensitive. Sometimes people need a solution now, not to open a bug report and hope that it will get a response an unspecified amount of time later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Not just that, it forces to create an account just to view!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's purely because of how easy it is to create and manage a community. Imagine if there were a way to make a Lemmy instance without any fees or knowledge of selfhosting, it would be an instant success.

They don't operate well at scale needed, though.