A black hole like Discord provides no way to ‘graduate’ from Discord; it wants you to be trapped there forever, writing short comments destined to be forgotten as soon as the screen scrolls past them, emoting and upvoting, and never going anywhere, and using Discord 10 years from now just like you use it today...)
I generally agree with any and all criticisms of Discord, but its search is pretty good. 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, and in my case seems like something that’s purely luck-of-the-draw when it comes to improbable phrases that you’ve mentioned only once or a handful of times.
On the other hand, Discord usersdo tend to have a lower threshold of reading stamina; “I ain’t reading all that — I’m happy for you, or sorry that happened” seems to happen more often in Discord unless you’re in a Discord guild that’s pre-selected for people who can read long things — a Gaming Lawyers guild, perhaps.
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.
unless you’re in a Discord guild that’s pre-selected for people who can read long things — a Gaming Lawyers guild, perhaps.
I was on a few rationality adjacent discord and got politically corrected for typing short and frequent messages, which often amounted to a rambling. Eventually I became low status enough that people just ignored what I said or had nothing to add to my conversation.
Which is in strong contrast to other “I am your mogged sigma in ohio, wanna rizz me up with your gyatt skibidi? No? What the sigma? Sus, no cap or I will fanum tax.” types of replies I was used to.
In normal speak, it would amount to “I am your guy, do you want to date with me attractive woman? No? are you sure? Seems suspicious, if you lie I will steal your lifeline/destroy you.” . But with multiple levels of irony and humorous tone.
I generally agree with any and all criticisms of Discord, but its search is pretty good. 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, and in my case seems like something that’s purely luck-of-the-draw when it comes to improbable phrases that you’ve mentioned only once or a handful of times.
On the other hand, Discord users do tend to have a lower threshold of reading stamina; “I ain’t reading all that — I’m happy for you, or sorry that happened” seems to happen more often in Discord unless you’re in a Discord guild that’s pre-selected for people who can read long things — a Gaming Lawyers guild, perhaps.
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.
I was on a few rationality adjacent discord and got politically corrected for typing short and frequent messages, which often amounted to a rambling. Eventually I became low status enough that people just ignored what I said or had nothing to add to my conversation.
Which is in strong contrast to other “I am your mogged sigma in ohio, wanna rizz me up with your gyatt skibidi? No? What the sigma? Sus, no cap or I will fanum tax.” types of replies I was used to.
(Tangent: I had no idea what that sentence meant; Sonnet 4 says
in case anyone else was as confused)
I meant the latter with “gyatt” , the newer meaning.
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In normal speak, it would amount to “I am your guy, do you want to date with me attractive woman? No? are you sure? Seems suspicious, if you lie I will steal your lifeline/destroy you.” . But with multiple levels of irony and humorous tone.
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