LB: Discussion forums should still play a role in communities, especially in support roles.

LB: Discussion forums should still play a role in communities, especially in support roles. The move to Discord servers for these kills discoverability even if that server is run flawlessly.

@SeanMP it blew my mind that was World of Warships. I was not expecting such a huge game to be that stupid.

@bearmine WHAT

I mean this is the company that regularly has users distribute classified information to yell about balance, but WHAT

@seanmp@mindly.social right on. The argument used to be that discussion forums are indexed and searchable (via search engine; forum search engines are notoriously useless).

That's less of an argument today because search engines are pretty crap nowadays too, but just having the ability to have persistent long-running conversations has been sorely lacking in every social media app since Facebook.

BBSes started it all, and they won't go away. BBSes will still be here when Discord fades away.