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Discord != Documentation

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I see a lot of things that have a discord community.
Why is this? Is it a way for someone. To earn extra money? Or do they just like that platform?
- Discord is easy to setup and use. It’s basically a chatroom with history. It can help build a community. It’s also a horrible way to store/archive information because it focuses on real-time communication. At larger scale it also tends to get too noisy.
  
  I don’t care for the real-time communication aspect of it. In fact i find it unusable.
  Am I supposed to just sit there and read random conversation and wait for a point to jump in?
  Seems like it takes too much effort.
  
  I mean, that is what IRC chat rooms were back in the day. Or any public chatroom from the 90s.
  Realtime communication has its part. We use Slack at work all the time. But searching Slack is a horrible way of replacing missing documentation.
  
  Especially when there's multiple subjects being discussed on the same channel
  
  easy to use
  Doubt
  
  Please provide your phone number to enter the room
  
  Try Nitro!
- It's free*, insanely easy to set up, you don't have to worry about port forwarding or ddos or hosting fees, has powerful moderation tools, and there's a plethora of easy to deploy bots that help manage permissions and automate routine tasks. Literally, if it had a proper web-accessible forum similar to phpBB, it would be perfect.
  
  Basically the same reasons subreddits supplanted forums.
- Lots of users gush over Discord for some reason. My impression is that more technically minded people don't really like it, but your average user uses it for almost everything and encourages more services they like to use it. Hence why many reddit subs moved to Discord - the mods didn't necessarily prefer it, but they were sent an overwhelming number of requests from their users.
  
  Thanks for the heads up, i guess I just a bit too old to have been part of the discord group.
  In the country where I live, it’s all Facebook messenger. It’s a shame as o think a number of people don’t really care for it, but everyone and every business uses it so we are kind stuck.
  
  Yeah I mean I don't understand it either. Telegram is bad enough for me, can't be assed with Discord.

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