Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
There are discord bots that can cache information if the server owner wants to. And many people still make a website in addition like The Balance does. Beside that, discord has a way to find discord servers now.
Most people don't though, there are way too many projects around where the solution to getting information is "join the Discord". Finding Discord servers through the Discord App is only available when the admin enables that. Besides, there is a limit to how many Discord servers a singular user is allowed to join. Moving information away from the web and into Discord is bad for the health of publicly available information, period.

Even if it was all cached, Google results have all been ruined by AI and all the reddit posts that come up for things are often outdated or misleading (ie. we have multiple fights featuring Titan and Shiva so it could deliver the wrong information to a new player). The reality is there is so much in the game, and it changes from time to time, that it's better to just ask a veteran player for the answer, which many people do in their FC, the Novice Network, forums, or on discord.
Lets not make the failure of search engines the base to excuse the move of information from actual publicly available spaces to spaces hidden behind closed applications.
Yes, a lot of things change in the game, which is why there are wikis that are better at not only cataloging, but also finding and archiving information. Discord is just a chat, but is being used as much more, to the detriment of the internet.

Discord is part of the internet now. It brought together refugees from lots of different chat and voice platforms - messengers, Skype, voice chat software, IRC, Steam, etc. They came from all directions to that one place and now it's part of the internet more than any of the others were. It became a platform for marketing by influencers, developers and businesses, and even used by schools. Even if SE reinvents its own version of Discord inside the game, people may not even use it. They use Discord for a reason. It was better than all the competition somehow and created a deeper feeling of community than the rest.

Trying to ignore Discord is like trying to ignore YouTube, Google, Facebook and other super popular apps. I suppose you can but... you know they are there, and you'll keep hearing about them.
No one wants to erase Discord, or deny its part of the internet. The fact that we have Discord is good for communication. We are criticizing the misuse of a chat application. Discord is a text and voice chat service..


People may not all be aware but Discord's co-founder plays FFXIV and made Discord in large part due to it. It was probably part of its success because making stuff go viral in the FFXIV community is especially effective and there was a peer pressure for raid groups and PUGs to install it over the other bad voice apps (every single one of those was trash).
Doesnt change the fact that the usage of a non-indexable non-persistent linear chat application to make information available is like trying to fit the square peg in the round hole. it may be done, but its still the wrong way to do things.