Am Sa, 5. Dez, 2020 um 5:50 P. M. schrieb L A Walsh <suse@tlinx.org>:
On 2020/12/04 16:32, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
If you come to discord for the purpose of having archives of conversations from years back, you are probably using it wrong. Consider it a live conversation between people, you wouldn't just record every conversation you ever had on tape in real life (at least I hope not).
I have no issue with there being no written record of voice channels.
I meant no record for text channels, not voice channels.
I recommend the inbox in the top right of the screen, you can see all of mentions of you, which is handy.
That's the search box that lack flexibility. If what you are looking for didnt' mention you, and you don't remember who posted it, you can't even do wildcard searching for text. [...]
I have never experienced the search lacking flexibility, it allows you to search by pretty much every piece of metadata in a message.
But not by the data itself. I usually remember what was "said" in a situation, but may know none of the metadata. Not being able to search through content is very limiting for those who remember what was said but maybe not who said it or when.
Ah, I see, the issue is that this usecase is not really indexible, and actually grepping through all of messages is expensive. I would call it a technical limitation.
Well, it's an instant messenger, and this is a standard fare with instant messengers.
Since when to instant messengers support instructional videos you should watch? Pictures? Screenshots? Posted schedules with people parts in upcoming events.... It's very much like a forum -- but no permanent archive and one that can be selectively pruned. It's certainly not a forum or a mailing list, it's
used for instant communication instead of deliberate multi-paragraph letters.
That's why people would webdocs (pictures, movies, spreadsheets, diagrams.. etc? Also, it's very much non-instant except for the voice-channels when people did runs together. Voice is instant. Talking in-depth about tactics and how to improve isn't what I would call "chat".
I would, I don't see how these features make discord into a forum. As a matter of fact pretty much anything that isn't IRC supports multimedia stuff, including IRCv3 for that matter, which is IRC I guess ;) LCP [Stasiek] https://lcp.world