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The issue comes frome people shoehorning Discord as a replacement for forums. Like a subreddit is a nice place for discussion and it's free. Discord is a chat app, not a forum app. It's about real time communication. In popular discords you can often just be ignored and they have to deal with the same stuff asked every single day.

If I want to share something cool then I'd rather post it on a forum because you don't need to be only at that exact moment to see it. If I want to report a bug then I'd rather use a forum. If I want to ask questions then I'd rather use a forum.

I love Discord, I think it really disrupted the industry. But a real-time chat app is not a replacement for a community forum.

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> Like a subreddit is a nice place for discussion and it's free.

Reddit is cancer. Their karma system is ripe for abuse, and a great majority of their mods have power issues and ban for frivolous reasons. Reddit is just a joke for any real conversation.

A subreddit is a horrible place for discussion though.

Mostly, yes, but it comes down to moderation and subreddit culture. Reddit - as a company - doesn't take moderation seriously, as evidenced by it being left to unpaid volunteers.

Trying to find a specific post on a subreddit is a nightmare. The built in search functionality is horrible.

At least it is indexed in Google. Not an excuse for Reddit's horrible search, I know, but IM doesn't even have that option.

Just use Google. Reddit's built in search is useless in comparison. Yesterday I found a great thread about suit tailors in my city. The posts were all 3 years old but fortunately the tailor was still active. Digging up this info would be impossible on Discord, because at best I'd be locating individual comments asking about the topic, then scroll down to see if anybody bothered to post a response instead of changing the topic to something else.

I would disagree, searching for a topic or question on any search engine and appending 'reddit' gets me reddit discussions that are frequently relevant to my question (game tips, bugs encountered in some software, often real user reviews for products, etc).

Reddit's redesign is annoying and their own search isn't great but the alternative sources for a lot of communal information is completely inaccessible. I cannot search Google for Discord conversations and get information about my Lenovo laptop's rear thunderbolt port misbehaving, even though I witnessed that conversation take place multiple times on the unofficial Legion Discord community. If you're not on Discord and sort of active in a community it might as well not exist.

You have to use google "site:" to have any chance at all. i don't know why reddit's search is so awful

Moderation being left to unpaid community members is a sign that Reddit DOES take moderation seriously

Not when you consider the type of people that unpaid moderation attracts. Reddit is broken.

Still far better than discord or twitter, at least for text/pictures. Audio/Video-channels on discord can be nice, though.

hacker news is also a horrible place because after a few days it locks you out from answering to responses

After years and years of making bad changes to the site, they recently did one thing right: they removed or greatly extended the period that you can reply to and upvote posts. It used to be that after 6 months everything was "archived", but now I see an open comment field on posts that are ten years old.

I've already gotten one or two comment replies to some years-old comments of mine, and I was able to help answer their questions.

I think this depends and varies from subreddit to subreddit. Some archive posts after a couple of months, while some are still open after years.

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