• carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence “search indexable”

    I’m not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.

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      17 days ago

      Not denying that it’s shit, I don’t know anyone who’s actually happy with it. But old forums also weren’t built nicely.
      The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time

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        17 days ago

        That’s why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever

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          13 days ago

          At some point, when you’re combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks.