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Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits (www.engadget.com)

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[–] restingboredface 26 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I still don't know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn't work at all the same way and search sucks.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yah, I don't get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it's not like it's going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It's utterly bizarre.

If you're running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions...

Yeah it's kind of a nightmare lol.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Exactly instead of a bunch of publicly searchable information silos we have a whole bunch of fragmented private ones with absolutely no overlap and far less useful. We need a publicly funded site of some kind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're not private. Advertisers have full access and that's what actually matters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I meant from people like you and me that are Googling an obscure topic or researching something or troubleshooting information, those things are disappearing behind the walls of Discord

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's the most popular alternative, simple as that. There's (sadly) no where else obvious the average community knows to go.