Starting today, new support threads that are created on discord will be indexed and be easily findable with search engines thanks to Answer Overflow. Right now, existing threads are being indexed.
The dedicated community link is here: https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/812703221789097985
I think this is crazily important. My biggest issue with Discord is that they have become the default hubs for issues and fixes. Over days, weeks, months and years those fixes get buried and harder to find, but the worst offender is that they are unindexable by default.
Its lovely to see someone doing this. I wish everyone would do this.
As ever, if you don't know Heroic, you can find their website with this link here
> Create massive problem by using proprietary shit platform
> Try to solve problem by hacking around it
Not like source forges have whole integrated systems just for the purpose of filing, debugging and fixing issues. That are naturally indexed of course.
It would be lovely if "open source" projects just didn't use discord.
To be fair, Heroic already use their GitHub repo to track issues.
I agree with you that Discord shouldn't even part of the equation to begin with, but it's become so prevalent everywhere that I imagine it's hard for devs to fully bypass.
Why do you imagine that? All a developer needs to do is choose a platform other than Discord. I have never found that to be hard.
And I have never used Discord for getting tech support.
It seems like Matrix would be the go to, but Element still lacks many of the conveniences & some of the functionality of Discord.
And it also doesn't publicly index. Is it at least possible to look at convos without an account?
Not if the server you are trying to view it from has guest viewing disabled such as matrix.org.
Both are terrible for this purpose. You don't need fancy features for a Q&A.
Not hard, you just don't do it.
Well it increases access to the issue tracker to people who have a discord account but not a GitHub or whatever account
And it takes away the ability to read issues and resolutions, which is probably 95% of what at least I have to do, from anyone and only grants it to the ones with a discord account
And, though I don't know how good forge fed will be, if it supports writing issues, you may be able to only have a codeberg or gitlab account (or your own instance(s)), and write issues everywhere (except GitHub ofc).