Discord as a Forum
Many developers and businesses already use Discord for their communication. However, as a timeline-oriented platform, useful messages move up the timeline and disappear causing questions to be asked over-and-over. This is fine for everyday messaging, but user FAQ's, user-feedback and bug reports tends to get lost.
It is easy to loose track of things, especially as servers get bigger:
- which feature was requested most?
- which bug was reported most?
- where to post a FAQ or announcement?
- what does the community want?
But now that Discord has released the "threaded messaging" feature, it would be very nice if selected conversations could be selected as useful and published to a webpage where they could be available for other users, similar to forum post:
- these ideas/bugs should be indexed by google (for others to find through google searches, SEO);
- the posts and answers could be upvoted/downvoted to show mods what their communities want/need most (like reddit or stackexchange)
- and the saved messages could be recommended to users by bot's whent hey ask similar questions in Discord (saving Mod's the time of answering FAQ over-and-over again)
Discord already has the best chat app out there, most developers already use it to stay in touch with their communities. Also, Discord has launched it’s own App Store which is in competition with Steam's game store which offers its developers a very basic forum. It feels only natural for Discord, who's main target is to handle communities and communication, to also offer mods a forum solution to help manage their communities.
It would be a full product covering:
- Default discord: A full solution for communities where small-talk, voice chat etc;
- A forum, FAQ, knowledge-base structure for gathering feedback (how many users have requested/suggested/reported something, reports etc) and for announcements;
- And the app-store for companies to sell their games/apps through.
And just as a bonus: can you imagine being able to use the power of Discord Bots to manage forum Communities?
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Mr_Nobody Yes I agree on the forum like ability needed.
Not sure if this was mentioned, but I would also like to see the ability to move a users post that maybe posted in the wrong category or channel. I would assume that would go hand in hand with answering to a topic. Right now, I don't see a way to do that.0 -
I require something like this to incorporate conflict with my family streaming, like a Showbox forum. Meetings are fantastic to help, while people are also sluggish to publish and are perfectly content to toss items in battle. Though to have their something thrown into disagreement and then teleported to our discussion would be the icing on the patty for the crash to forums and forums to discord
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happy with this idea. I want to backup data.
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I see your point and agree with you. I thought there might be a forum software out there capable of managing the thread import process. I delved deep into Discourse and did some initial exploration of a few other open-source options. I want a server guide regarding best hang on treestand website.
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Highlighting the challenge faced on Discord—where important messages get lost in the timeline, impacting FAQs, user feedback, and bug reports, especially within larger servers. The introduction of 'threaded messaging' offers hope for resolving this by allowing chosen conversations to be curated and published on a webpage resembling a forum post. This concept could aid indexing by search engines, enable upvoting/downvoting for prioritization, and empower bots to recommend saved messages to users—thus optimizing community management. Integrating this into Discord's existing robust chat app, along with its app store, could provide a comprehensive solution for community management, forums, and app sales. The potential for Discord Bots to manage forum communities is an intriguing bonus.
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i like this great.
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