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Since when is Discord a proper place to get information? On larger servers, anything you type is gone forever after an hour due to the volume of messages.
Its not.
but people still insist on using it as a information store house. Much to the detriment of everyone.
For someone in Russia, the impermanence might be a desirable feature. I mean, there's always still IRC but Discord is all the rage these days.
Get off my lawn.
It's not even properly impermanent because somebody else can just archive everything, ironically giving them better overview than the actual members themselves
Do you not know how to properly search in discord? Sure forums are better but a message in discord isn’t “gone forever” if you’re searching. It’s a pretty fast to search too, which is an insanely impressive feat due to the sheer amount of messages.
Yeah but the searching also kind of sucks for detailed information.
If only we had these things called search engines that indexed websites that had information on them.
Discord's search is a joke. You search for specific words and you get a load of results that are... just not that word, at all
Sure, but you also have to know to search for it.
The search bar is at the top of the screen. Click inside of it and it shows you what you can search. It's dirt easy.
Search is great for discovering known unknowns. Not so much for unknown unknowns.
Neither are normal websites or search engines. You don’t get to barbie.com/how-to-make-her-a-boat by searching “why is my Barbie orange like the Cheeto man?”
To be perfectly fair, all barbie URLs redirect to mattel.
example: barbie.com/whatthefuckdidyoujustfuckingsayaboutmeyoulittlebitchillhaveyouknowigraduatedtopofmyclassinthenavysealsandivebeeninvolvedinnumeroussecretraidsonalquaedaandihaveover300confirmedkills
That I understand how redirect domains work?
Discord search is only really useful if you already know what the message says
When I don't find information through a search engine, I go asking it from people themselves.
Discord is an easy solution for me to find this information at that point. Much easier than generating yet another user account in a website I might use once in my life, while I already use discord a lot.
By the way - you can search for messages you have sent and for messages that were pointed directly to you. Makes delving into old conversations much easier.
Of course Telegram and other services like that can help too.