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I agree with most of this article except about Discord being Reddit’s main competitor. I think Discord has a distinct enough feel that it’s almost kinda separate from other social media. It’s less so like a platform you make posts on and moreso a big text group with lots of features, which is perfect for some communities but stifling for others.
I don’t really get a lot of what people want to use Discord for. A couple web forums I used (ram by companies, for specific games) closed and they moved to Discord. How is IRC-style chat a replacement for a forum? They’re totally different formats.
Works well enough as a group chat / voice call app. That’s what it’s for. Before discord you had to pay for good group voice calls.
To be fair, they have Forum Channels.
That is an improvement for sure. The problem remains, though, that the info is locked in Discord and won’t show up on search engines.
I think discoverability is still a problem.
I use Discord for real-time communication, but leaving a platform that’s closing up access for a platform with already closed access makes no sense to me. It doesn’t solve the original problem.
