I find Discord such an annoying tool for it though, it's not a principled objection for me really, I just don't think it's a good solution.
I've never actually had a question answered (rarely even addressed) within some chat-like timeframe anyway, then after some days or a week or so I forget all about it or couldn't find it again scrolling up if I wanted to.
People always talk about search engines not indexing it harming discovering, but another aspect of that is that you can't tell if the 'server' is completely dead until you make an account or log in and join it. Then potentially you just see a flood of people joining, maybe one or two asked a question, and there's just no other activity.
But my main issue I think is just that I can't keep up with the chat for so many different 'servers' and their channels, so why does it make sense for it to be chat anyway? Something like Reddit makes much more sense to me, where there's a bit of a sense of what's current, but not to the same extent.
I've never actually had a question answered (rarely even addressed) within some chat-like timeframe anyway, then after some days or a week or so I forget all about it or couldn't find it again scrolling up if I wanted to.
People always talk about search engines not indexing it harming discovering, but another aspect of that is that you can't tell if the 'server' is completely dead until you make an account or log in and join it. Then potentially you just see a flood of people joining, maybe one or two asked a question, and there's just no other activity.
But my main issue I think is just that I can't keep up with the chat for so many different 'servers' and their channels, so why does it make sense for it to be chat anyway? Something like Reddit makes much more sense to me, where there's a bit of a sense of what's current, but not to the same extent.