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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I guess, but because it's so linear all the discussions are running through each other and messy. So if someone asked a question I'm interested in I then have to read a whole lot of messages to see if maybe someone said something relevant about it.

Also, the messages are not indexed by search engines, which has its advantages, but for a tech/ support channel it doesn't make much sense.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

I don't use matrix specifically (basically everything I have seen that uses it comes across as "shady", at best) but discord very much has a search functionality in each chat channel. Same with slack.

But also: What magical wonderland of tech support do you live in where people read context and don't just make the same suggestion hundreds of times in a row?