Comment by account42
5 years ago
> What I like about forums is that a) they're indexable by search engines! and b) because there's no expectation of an immediate response, people tend to put more time into their requests for help.
For me there is also c) I can browse the content that is already there without signing up. Not going to join your Discord "server" when I don't even know anything about your community.
>Not going to join your Discord "server" when I don't even know anything about your community.
Why not? It's just as easy to join a discord server as to visit a site. If you don't have a Discord account already you can just type something random for your nickname.
Click the link, hope you're not inadvertently joining with your porn account, type a nickname, sit in the waiting room for 10 minutes until you can click the emoji that says you read the rules, get in, get notifications from unrelated channels because someone used @here begging for boosts, write out your question, get pinged again by a bot because you levelled up, then discover it wasn't the server you were looking for after all.
Why would a support discord do that?
>porn account
literally no one cares
>type a nickname
You don't need to
>sit in the waiting room for 10 minutes until you can click the emoji that says you read the rules
Most servers don't do this and you can set up your server to not do this
>get notifications from unrelated channels because someone used @here begging for boosts
This doesn't happen to me in the servers I am in.
>get pinged again by a bot because you levelled up
You don't need a bot like this in your server.
Instead of hating discord just hate when people set things up like that.
I disagree. It's harder.
> you can just type something random for your nickname.
See, already harder.
I don't want to join something just so I can read it. I'll join it if I want to interact.
most people already have an account so it's not harder
and is like 5 key presses that hard?
Oh yes, that's an amazing reason.