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  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, "wow a cool software. let's check out the community"
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    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

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  4. person looking behind with the text "nevermind".
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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I don't get discord at all. It seems like the worst parts or IRC and the worst parts of webforums mashed together with no redeeming values added. I can't find anything, I can't tell what conversations are over, I can't figure out any of the in-jokes. If the place is too dead it's completely devoid of anything of value, if it's too big everything of value gets buried.

I've tried to take part in a couple of servers, those attempts have never last more than a couple hours.

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's was my exact experience on a pokemon go server. So many channels and conversations that notifications are useless and searching for the information I needed was difficult. Just one giant group chat which is awful for storing needed, retrievable, information imo.

Made me never want to step into discord again.

Same thing with EVERY SINGLE GORILLA TAG SERVER. Way too many mentions. Not straight forward enough. I can not express this enough. It’s insane!

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's great for smallish groups of friends bs-ing or collaborating, but bigger than that I've always found it painful

But, some people can apparently keep up with the firehouse of comments on Twitch streams while they make me not want to bother with it at all, so...

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 7 months ago

Yeah. My D&D group uses it for audio and video feeds and a little bit of between session chat. I appreciate how good the audio settings are.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It has probably the worst UI of any site or app. I can never find the settings I need to modify or what the heck I’m looking at. It tells me that there’s a new reply specifically to me but I can never find it because it has long scrolled up in the history.

The content is hidden from the world unless you sign up and join, so the knowledge captured on a discord server is essentially useless.

It’s definitely a mashup on irc and web forums, but infinitely worse.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I think it is only used more than IRC because you can post images.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've always found that Discord's search works pretty well!

[–] variants@possumpat.io 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's what I use most to see if people have asked the same question I have then I jump to the discussion they had and that leads me where I want to go, but I do get it would be really annoying for someone who isn't logged into discord or uses it to chat with friends

[–] DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Forums do it better, can be indexed by a search engine, can be bookmarked, and can be archived using the wayback machine or a similar service. Important information shouldn't be buried in chat logs. And discord's forum feature was an idea they tacked on and is a poor substitute for the real thing.

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 2 points 7 months ago

Those are definitely some excellent points

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

The barrier to entry for IRC is very high for non technical users. It's also archaic, has little to no customisation and can be difficult to moderate at high volumes.

I'm not defending discord here, but the IRC comparisons are silly.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I am guessing they advertised the right time in the right place. I agree, it's absolute trash

[–] Mango@lemmy.world -3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

28yo here - Discord feels as if ADHD was a piece of software

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

As someone diagnosed - you couldn't have said it better 10/10

[–] yuriy@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I’m 25 and share all these woes, what is old to you?

[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 7 months ago

I’m 21 and completely agree.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Old is when you don't try to understand the interface anymore.

Discord enables so much that's never been so convenient before. Can't say I like the company, but it's pretty much the best at what it does.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I joined reddit at 23 like 3 yrs ago from Tumblr/4chan(tttt)/VK/irc and already used discord before. It's just shit and you're coping

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

K? Coping with what exactly?