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jiehong 3 hours ago

I think one side problem is that part of the web is not even searchable with a search engine.

Here are some examples:

- Discord

- WeChat (is it the web?)

- Rednote

- TikTok (partially)

- X (partially)

- JSTOR (it finds daily, but you find more stuff on the website directly)

- any stuff with a login, obviously.

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reddalo 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Discord

Damn, I can't stand open-source projects that host their "forums" on Discord. It's a nigthmare to use, it's heavy, slow, and it's completely unsearchable from the web.

I wonder what went wrong with our society.

	▲	cyberrock 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		First of all not everyone wants spectators and gawkers on all of their conversations. As for open solutions, IRC didn't provide chat history for the common folk (no, most users are not able to host their own Pi Zero bouncer, especially back in 2017), and Matrix development was too slow (Elements implemented message pinning in 2022), so the rest was history. There was just no alternative to Slack or Discord.