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> In fact, some of the communities that closed down in response to the API changes explicitly shifted to Discord.

While Discord does some things right in the community platform space, I don't think its a suitable replacement for Reddit. One of the biggest issues with Discord is how the content posted into a community is lost into the abyss. The discoverability of content on the platform is basically non existent.

Lots of the Reddit alternatives, including Discord, seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

I've been working on a community platform called Sociables that combines the feature set of Discord with the discussion boards and discoverability of Reddit. It's like a Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid where the posts are search engine indexable. We've built a place to monetarily incentivize ownership over the communities created on the platform as it feels like the people curating the communities should be rewarded for the work that they do.

https://sociables.com

Also the name of some delicious crackers. (or at least I think so - I haven't had any since childhood)

Your UI/UX looks great, it's something I've found sorely lacking in most of the alternatives I've happened across.

Appreciate the feedback!

> Lots of the Reddit alternatives, including Discord, seem to be missing the core idea of what Reddit really is (a community of communities). I think first and foremost it's the community aspect of Reddit that makes it appealing.

Lemmy has this aspect nailed down. Reddit is not special in that regard. Reddit was special in the way it presented itself as a community driven service that was easy to join. Once you get rid of the community aspect, which Reddit's CEO did with his persecution of anyone who protested against his decision, then alternatives such as Lemmy jump ahead as the best option out there for community driven service.

Your site doesn't accept .me emails. When making early-stage design decisions might be a good idea to priotize minimizing friction for new users, even edge case ones.

Do you mean like example@something.me? I just tried and that seems to work

https://imgur.com/a/BmATW9I

I'd guess that's the two letter domain doing that.

Oh I think it might be to do with the capitalization. We will add a fix. Thanks for bringing this up

>One of the biggest issues with Discord is how the content posted into a community is lost into the abyss.

This is something Discord could fix by adding functionality. They've solved the base problem - they have the users. The overlap of Reddit users and Discord users is huge. You need a Discord account these days even if you aren't into gaming or "socializing" on the internet - most programming projects use it instead of IRC or Slack now.

Discord is also in a better position re:IPO/profitability.

That's why when people kept saying "there's nowhere for people to go" I thought Discord would be the perfect choice. If they're willing to capitalize on the opportunity they absolutely could swoop in and start eating Reddit's lunch.

Fuck u/spez

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