If you know what to search for, you can dig out that old post. Of course, leaving memorable breadcrumbs you can search for three years later is, at best, an art
Yes, that has been my experience too. Sure, Discord (like Twitter) gives you fairly powerful search primitives, to a greater extent than most people ever notice. You can filter by user, date-ranges, that sort of thing… It was written by nerds for nerds, originally, and it shows. However, I have still struggled to find many older Discord comments by myself or others, because it is inherent to the nature of realtime shortform media that it can be extremely difficult to remember the exact breadcrumb, if any, or write in such a way that your hazy searches years later doesn’t pull up 500 other hits. (No one argues for doing all documentation as random IRC conversations “because you can just grep your IRC logs”, and I have also sometimes seriously struggled to find old IRC conversations despite remembering them fairly clearly.)
Without any kind of organization or summarization or FAQ/wiki-like accumulating document, this is inevitable. And Discord doesn’t particularly care about this because it wants you to spend all your time there, not consolidate knowledge or build on past comments or create public knowledge, so it optimizes for that, and no amount of Boolean queries can make up for a design which cares only about the most recent screen of comments.
Which is my point: everything is lost in the rain, despite your tears, and there is no path to growth or long content.
Discord (like Twitter) gives you fairly powerful search primitives, to a greater extent than most people ever notice. You can filter by user, date-ranges, that sort of thing… It was written by nerds for nerds, originally, and it shows.
It seems worth noting that 𝕏 search has been broken for quite a while, and shows no sign of improvement.
Yes, that has been my experience too. Sure, Discord (like Twitter) gives you fairly powerful search primitives, to a greater extent than most people ever notice. You can filter by user, date-ranges, that sort of thing… It was written by nerds for nerds, originally, and it shows. However, I have still struggled to find many older Discord comments by myself or others, because it is inherent to the nature of realtime shortform media that it can be extremely difficult to remember the exact breadcrumb, if any, or write in such a way that your hazy searches years later doesn’t pull up 500 other hits. (No one argues for doing all documentation as random IRC conversations “because you can just grep your IRC logs”, and I have also sometimes seriously struggled to find old IRC conversations despite remembering them fairly clearly.)
Without any kind of organization or summarization or FAQ/wiki-like accumulating document, this is inevitable. And Discord doesn’t particularly care about this because it wants you to spend all your time there, not consolidate knowledge or build on past comments or create public knowledge, so it optimizes for that, and no amount of Boolean queries can make up for a design which cares only about the most recent screen of comments.
Which is my point: everything is lost in the rain, despite your tears, and there is no path to growth or long content.
It seems worth noting that 𝕏 search has been broken for quite a while, and shows no sign of improvement.