Quote Originally Posted by ovIm View Post
Discord really is part of a cancer that is destroying internet knowledge bases. It's non-indexed, non-persistent and linear in nature. It's a chat, not a forum or a wiki. And yet people are happy to gate their information behind this weird chat service instead of making it actually publicly available because its so easy to make a Discord server.
Yep, it is completely replacing wikis and forums even though it is a completely terrible platform for that type of thing. And as we can see from ffxiv, it is also making it harder to jump into specific types of content because the community has collectively decided that this should be the primary way of organising things. I can't say I am not guilty of this either, I have organised Rival Wings queue syncs for years through the use of discord, but I think this just highlights how hard it can be to organise things through in game means.