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If my favorites subreddits go to Discord, I'll simply not go there. Discord has nothing to do like a forum, it is almost impossible to search for valuable information, and is really hard to use when dozens and dozens of people are talking simultaneously.

I really don't get why so many people want their sub to go to Discord tbh.

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same here, totally mystified. One of my favorite subreddits went over to Discord and apart from the UI/UX being horrific, it doesn't seem to replicate much of the Reddit experience. It's just a giant chat session with a few subtopics it's a cesspool of animated emojis etc.

From the frying pan in to the fire. Discord doesn't even have third party apps.

I like Discord but I get that it's not for everybody. Jumping into a very active wide Discord community (with many channels) can be an incredibly jarring sensory assault, and if you don't have a narrower community (e.g. a private server for just your friend group, or honestly just a server with very few channels to keep track of) to figure out things, it can be very off-putting.

That said, the reason why so many people want to go to Discord is pretty hard to miss: out of all the alternatives, it's the one with critical mass now. Even if everyone is distributed across different servers (to be clear to those less familiar, a server is not a physical/virtual host) and cannot directly interact with one another, the network effects are readily apparent.

I think Discord is a stopgap until mods figure out the next platform to move to (e.g. Lemmy).

I view it as more of an addition to Reddit, rather than a replacement.

Discord has forums now, they're helpful. The only downside is they're not indexed.

Same, Discord to me is like a more confusingly implemented and laid out Slack.

Now Discourse https://www.discourse.org/ would be a much better choice.

I can't believe I'm saying this but I'd almost rather use Discord than an unthreaded flat forum.

Still hopeful that Matrix will get Zulip style threading/UX and then I'll be so so so happy.

Discord has forum like features these days. Still a terrible choice though.

Discord's attempt as 'forum' is... incredibly bad and difficult to read. It is not what anyone expects a forum to be.

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