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Starting today, Heroic Games Launcher is indexing their Discord server (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Starting today, new support threads that are created on discord will be indexed and be easily findable with search engines thanks to Answer Overflow. Right now, existing threads are being indexed.

The dedicated community link is here: https://www.answeroverflow.com/c/812703221789097985

I think this is crazily important. My biggest issue with Discord is that they have become the default hubs for issues and fixes. Over days, weeks, months and years those fixes get buried and harder to find, but the worst offender is that they are unindexable by default.

Its lovely to see someone doing this. I wish everyone would do this.

As ever, if you don't know Heroic, you can find their website with this link here

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Maybe just make a fucking forum? Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

It got popular because it's excellent for gaming communities. Not for code base discussion.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. Discord is a chatroom not a forum.

[–] JackbyDev 6 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Because you can make a Discord server with a few clicks. It's super easy. I wish more people used things indexable by search engines too, but you really can't deny how incredibly easy Discord is from the side of the people wanting to set up something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

And everyone already has an account, they can just press a button to join the server and be interacting straight away.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You can make a lemmy community in a few clicks if you don't want to run your own instance.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Discord is a superb chat room with voice chat and screen share.

Most of the userbase is too young to know forums exist.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place.

Because its more than a bunch of posts, its voice comms and thats more useful. So find a platform that does both and maybe people change, maybe. More likely we will have to wait for IPO and enshitification before that happens.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Because stupid people use it, and unfortunately stupid people are most.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

STOP USING DISCORD

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Make me an foss alternative that has all the discord features and the user base.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I get it.

I can't use discord because my privacy settings on my devices is such that discord demands my phone number from me, and that is not a piece of personally identifying information I will ever share with them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can't use the webapp?

I always just use the browser app and I don't think I've given them my phone number... I should check that actually

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I understand you. You can always use a temp number or get a sim without credit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

That is a proper workaround when you don’t have a choice, disposable temp sim will get you through their “security”. Unfortunately doesn’t work with virtual sim numbers though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

This is super cool. I hope it works really well, the difficulty of accessing troubleshooting info from discord is such a problem.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, so now I don't have to bug them on Discord and just Google things? That's pretty useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Support threads, if they're ising what I think they are, already look a lot like traditional forum posts. Great idea to actually make it a forum