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minus-squareSordid_Seraphim@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·4 hours agoBecause it has a lot of good tools for finding what you need on an intuitive platform focused around communities similar to Reddit. Let’s be real Discord is popular because it does a lot of things really well.
minus-squarefrozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 hours ago it has a lot of good tools for finding what you need As a moderator and the primary troubleshooter for a 12k member discord server, no the fuck it does not. new user joins Hey, how do I X? It’s in pins. new user joins Hey, how do I Y? It’s in pins. new user joins Hey, how do I Z? It’s in pins. Kill me. Or bring back old-school forums. One of the two.
minus-squareSordid_Seraphim@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·3 hours agoWhat your talking about has nothing to do with the tools and everything to do with stupid users never reading or using resources available. Same way 1% users actually read server rules.
minus-squareZagorath@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 hours agoThe users found the Discord because they searched for their problem and the result was a recommendation to join the Discord. If the answer had been indexable by search engines, the search engine would have found the answer and given it to the user. No need to even log in.
minus-squarefrozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 hours agoI would posit that if the tools don’t make the resources readily available and obvious (like a pinned forum thread that you literally have to scroll past to make a new thread), then the tools aren’t good.
Because it has a lot of good tools for finding what you need on an intuitive platform focused around communities similar to Reddit.
Let’s be real Discord is popular because it does a lot of things really well.
As a moderator and the primary troubleshooter for a 12k member discord server, no the fuck it does not.
new user joins
It’s in pins.
new user joins
It’s in pins.
new user joins
It’s in pins.
Kill me. Or bring back old-school forums. One of the two.
What your talking about has nothing to do with the tools and everything to do with stupid users never reading or using resources available.
Same way 1% users actually read server rules.
The users found the Discord because they searched for their problem and the result was a recommendation to join the Discord.
If the answer had been indexable by search engines, the search engine would have found the answer and given it to the user. No need to even log in.
I would posit that if the tools don’t make the resources readily available and obvious (like a pinned forum thread that you literally have to scroll past to make a new thread), then the tools aren’t good.