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[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Do you not know how to properly search in discord? Sure forums are better but a message in discord isn’t “gone forever” if you’re searching. It’s a pretty fast to search too, which is an insanely impressive feat due to the sheer amount of messages.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah but the searching also kind of sucks for detailed information.

If only we had these things called search engines that indexed websites that had information on them.

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 8 months ago

Discord's search is a joke. You search for specific words and you get a load of results that are... just not that word, at all

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but you also have to know to search for it.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The search bar is at the top of the screen. Click inside of it and it shows you what you can search. It's dirt easy.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Search is great for discovering known unknowns. Not so much for unknown unknowns.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Neither are normal websites or search engines. You don’t get to barbie.com/how-to-make-her-a-boat by searching “why is my Barbie orange like the Cheeto man?”

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be perfectly fair, all barbie URLs redirect to mattel.

example: barbie.com/whatthefuckdidyoujustfuckingsayaboutmeyoulittlebitchillhaveyouknowigraduatedtopofmyclassinthenavysealsandivebeeninvolvedinnumeroussecretraidsonalquaedaandihaveover300confirmedkills

[–] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Discord search is only really useful if you already know what the message says