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And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.
Exactly. I really hate when people use Discord for stuff like this.
Or slack
Pretty soon search engines won't be able to return anything anymore. At which point we might be looking for communities where live people can help with our issue. And if that happens Discord won't look that out of place anymore.
If you can go somewhere and have your problem solved do you really care that some schmuck later won't be able to find the solution written somewhere and will have to go through the same process?
You're forgetting about the schmuck on the other end of that equation that has to answer the same question a thousand times over.
Nah, that person can just ignore/block you.
I didn't say it was a perfect setup. 🙂
And tbf there's lots of people who don't read the FAQ even if you shove their face in it.