Well I assume the original complaint was alluding to the common criticism that discord is a walled garden that makes information harder to find than if everything existed on forums on normal websites. Those forums are easy to search through because search engines have been parsing it all without the owner having to do any extra work. Yeah, each forum/website owner could take special steps to make sure their site is indexed and searchable, but the vast majority don’t or do it poorly, and that’s why the search engine has value (or did before the internet was mostly social media and listicles).
You’d want more than just a wiki, because I think the thing people want searchable are the discussions. I know on more than one occasion I’ve had to go seek out and join specific discord servers to see how Linux support for a specific new product is (not to mention needing a discord account just to do this search). It’s as though everyone moved to a centralized version of usenet, which is at least two steps backwards from how the internet was 15 years ago.
Yeah server owner.
Well I assume the original complaint was alluding to the common criticism that discord is a walled garden that makes information harder to find than if everything existed on forums on normal websites. Those forums are easy to search through because search engines have been parsing it all without the owner having to do any extra work. Yeah, each forum/website owner could take special steps to make sure their site is indexed and searchable, but the vast majority don’t or do it poorly, and that’s why the search engine has value (or did before the internet was mostly social media and listicles).
You’d want more than just a wiki, because I think the thing people want searchable are the discussions. I know on more than one occasion I’ve had to go seek out and join specific discord servers to see how Linux support for a specific new product is (not to mention needing a discord account just to do this search). It’s as though everyone moved to a centralized version of usenet, which is at least two steps backwards from how the internet was 15 years ago.