2nd May 2023, 6:15 AM
Kotaku posted a little opinion piece on this, but I've noticed the trend too and not just for "official" forums. So very many keep pushing to just remove forums outright in favor of Discord. There's a number of problems with this. First of all, at Discord's whim, the whole place can just vanish, or all of them can. This goes back to the trend towards monopolization so many industries are undergoing, but heck discussion forums are barely an industry. It's just not a good idea to tie so very many discussions to a singular company who could just vanish one day. Heck, Discord's dead if ever phone companies all get their act together and implement the old "party lines", complete with UI hooks for modern cell phones and establishing "rooms", right into the telephone standard.
But, then there's that other reality. I can't find anything in a discord chat room! Forums specialize in everyone creating individual threads for every little avenue of discussion, where Discord, like chat rooms, is designed to congeal everyone's thoughts down into a small handful of massive threads. The "searchability" is pretty much nil as well.
Forums still have a very important place, and the worst situation there would be a buyout, as happened with Nintendoage. THAT was devastating. All that research and all that information for collectors just deleted overnight by greedy scam artists so they could use that ignorance to artificially inflate prices in their current scheme.
https://kotaku.com/discord-forum-message...1850393695
But, then there's that other reality. I can't find anything in a discord chat room! Forums specialize in everyone creating individual threads for every little avenue of discussion, where Discord, like chat rooms, is designed to congeal everyone's thoughts down into a small handful of massive threads. The "searchability" is pretty much nil as well.
Forums still have a very important place, and the worst situation there would be a buyout, as happened with Nintendoage. THAT was devastating. All that research and all that information for collectors just deleted overnight by greedy scam artists so they could use that ignorance to artificially inflate prices in their current scheme.
https://kotaku.com/discord-forum-message...1850393695
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)