I mean, it is literally a chat room.Only time I ever used it was in the transition to this place and I hated it. Just felt like a chat room.
I see where you're coming from, but as someone who doesn't use Discord, I never had any issue finding things like that whenever I need them elsewhere.
The issue I have is that too often video is replacing text, and it's really a pain in the ass when they take 10 minutes to tell you something you could understand in 8 seconds.
I suppose I just don't get why now glorified chat rooms are replacing forums when that never happened back in the day. They serve different purposes.I mean, it is literally a chat room.
I do agree with the idea that Discord shouldn't be the fall-back for technical support, though. The amount of shit I've only figured out because of decade-old forum threads...
I don't think they are - Reddit's replacing forums, not Discord.I suppose I just don't get why now glorified chat rooms are replacing forums when that never happened back in the day. They serve different purposes.
... what ? Twitter is the real issue when it comes down to finding tech for fighting games.Shoutouts to finding fighting game tech being a fucking mess in 2019
I get the concern OP but you could have easily said the same thing about IRC years ago and we managed to get by.
What games have guides that are only exclusively on Discord and literally nowhere else on the internet?
Curious to what info? Over the past year in terms of mods/tools/guides i have found them way easier to both find and digest through reddit than any fan/official discord channel. I stopped reading guides to games when Youtube became a thing. I don't think information is going anywhere i think people like to just have more personal experiences with each other.
What. Discord is a chat channel similar to Teamspeak, AOL Messenger, IRC, etc., but much improved. Not meant for guides or storing information. People join a Discord to chat about something, a topic, or with their friends.
I get you what you say about preservation, but Discord is SUPER useful about specific issues, you find a game/device channel and you already know that there are dedicated ppl in that channel that can help you with the matter, instead of asking on general forums hoping that someone who know the issue will read and answer you.
On Reddit you rarely get anything helpful and no one check specific forums anymore so yeah, Discord is really useful despite its "volatility".
God, yes I fucking hate that. Why are all guides/instructions, even for the simplest things (and not just gaming related), in video format/on YouTube? What happened to text instructions? I don't want to listen to some dude talking slowly and adding a bunch of filler. Just give me a good text guide I can absorb and skim at my own pace.Discord is 100% a young people thing. If you're old & busy, it's practically useless as you can't keep up with 1 long conversation.
I can't even find text guides anymore because everyone thinks I want to watch some dudes on YouTube.
I guess that a lot of smaller communities as well as bigger developers start setting up shop at a Discord because it's simply cheaper to set up and host, while forums and wikis are more expensive and therefore all the knowledge and tools that are produced within the Discord can easily disappear if someone doesn't bring it outside the Discord. At least with forums, it's automatically archived for future use.
Many examples;
- Homeworld modding has gone into a Discord that isn't publicly available. Guids and mod releases are in one single channel but it is flooded with chat messages. Before, they would be available in a easily searchable forum format.
- Heavy Gear Assault's forums are completely dead so you have no idea what's going on with this dead game even though it's still sold. You have to find their Discord link in the store page and then you can access it and then you can start going through the old chatlog and see that the developers were bamboozled by some predatory publisher.
- Mechwarrior 5 modding and announcement and dev interaction have gone completely over to the Discord so you no longer have forum threads to help you understand what's going on, what the latest information is, etc.
- Screenshotting forum used to be on Dead End Thrills, but it's completely abandoned and dead now. Instead, it's a Discord now where expert users have to repeat the same information over and over again to new users.
I don't think there's less personal experience between a chatroom and a forum, but that's just me.
The problem is that a lot of developers and smaller communities exile themselves to closed Discord servers as a replacement for forums or asynchronous conversation. This means that a lot of the traditional way of accessing information and getting help is completely incompatible with the Chatroom format of discord.
The problem is precisely that people have to be active there and see your message before it gets flooded by other messages. And there actually has to be an active community, otherwise it's long dead.
Like I'm supposed to seek out special discords for individual fighting game characters and comb through the endless chat? Why back in my day we had these newfangled web guides on central hubs and we were damn grateful!
This has been my main experience with Discord, I was very slow to get on that train and I'm honestly still not really on it, I try going to somewhere like 8wayrun for info and the forums are barren, rarely posted in. Everyone says to go to discords so I do, and it's so hard to sift through. Forums and wikis were, I won't say better because I still don't really understand discord, but certainly much much easier, to navigate if nothing else.Shoutouts to finding fighting game tech being a fucking mess in 2019
The problem is Discord is probably going to replace forums altogether outside of a few big ones. Most are already dead compared to what they were even 5 years ago.
I disagree. Forums and a Chat Room serves completely two different purposes. Forums are for discussion and the posting of information. Discord is for chatting. I use Discord everyday but never use it in ways that I do with forums.
Shoutouts to finding fighting game tech being a fucking mess in 2019
Yep we regressed hardcore, it's maddening. I think too many people wanna promote their own shit instead of making a single source of information that'd help everyone. It's crazy that it's harder to find information nowadays than it was 10 years ago, even though there's more of it.
Right there with you...I definitely miss IRC, though. Made some great friends back in the day on it. I've used discord to call another user (actually played some Dragon Marked for Death with another Era user) and that's it...I feel too old/behind the times for whatever the "real" Discord is.Discord freaks me out because back in my day I was on IRC and it's basically nothing compared to Discord, which is basically a juggarnaut. I don't even use it. I feel so fucking old. But reading your post about how powerful it is makes me wonder what the hell I've been missing and is a stark reminder of how primitive IRC is in comparison.