2 hours ago, GaryK said:

Not sure how you arrived at that reply???

Too many blindly partisan members on this forum. I'm off for another few weeks.🙂 

Happy new year.

This is what he said and I will post it in quotes.   "Discord might be ok for answering simple, trivial questions, the answer for which can be given in seconds. "

47 minutes ago, Nixoq said:

Basically, a Discord channel is a forum with subforums but no individual threads.

Actually, it is now possible to have forum-like support channels, with individual threads. The FenixSim discord have that functionality implemented, as an example.

8 minutes ago, SierraDelta said:

Actually, it is now possible to have forum-like support channels, with individual threads. The FenixSim discord have that functionality implemented, as an example.

Yes and it works great. I had a question on the Fenix the other night while flying, posted it, , and within 10 seconds had an answer from a moderator that solved my problem. Not going to get that from a forum. 

Agreed that Discord is a poor support venue.  Yes it now has the possibility for individual threads, but hardly any servers use it.  I personally suspect this is by design; support squawks are quickly hidden.  If you have a real support forum, anyone researching your product can see a record of repetitive issues, but if you just use Discord, those issues quickly become hidden.  They're still there, but not easy to find and not apparent all at once.

2 hours ago, SierraDelta said:

Actually, it is now possible to have forum-like support channels, with individual threads. The FenixSim discord have that functionality implemented, as an example.

As does FlightFX and it works well. Once again I posted a question about something in their manual and I got a response from them in less then 5 minutes. I suspect this aversion to Discord is more about adjusting to change than the platform itself.

13 hours ago, Rockliffe said:

I agree. As soon as I hear the word Discord, I lose the will to live. What's the big problem with a forum?

well  have  you looked  at  the  last threads  in the  forum lately,  goes  more  like  not  helping  the  op in any way but  my sim is  better  than  yours doesn't  take long  to hijack  any  thread  now days

This certainly stands true for any discussion attempted on discord as well, with the compounding problem that they're all occurring in one run-on thread (because hardly anyone uses the threaded discussions; I know they exist but servers that use them are outliers.)

I love discord... For its intended purpose.  It's not a good support venue.

Edited January 7, 20233 yr by Stearmandriver

10 hours ago, Nixoq said:

but that the design of Discord often will drown your question among other posts before a developer or anyone with an answer even sees it.

My experience. There are people (like me) who don not have the time to spend on DC for a longer period to await an answer and by the time we log back in to it, the question and the eventual answer is buried. It's a fast forum and a slow chat box. 🙂

12 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

Yes and it works great. I had a question on the Fenix the other night while flying, posted it, , and within 10 seconds had an answer from a moderator that solved my problem. Not going to get that from a forum. 

why?

12 hours ago, ha5mvo said:

why?

I wondered that as well.  It's just someone typing words in response to someone else; there's no difference in effort or action required between responding on discord vs a forum.  The forum just remains easier to read.

1 minute ago, Stearmandriver said:

I wondered that as well.  It's just someone typing words in response to someone else; there's no difference in effort or action required between responding on discord vs a forum.  The forum just remains easier to read.

And Discord many times gives a much  more knowledgeable answer and much quicker. 

23 hours ago, slait said:

I suspect this aversion to Discord is more about adjusting to change than the platform itself.

Nope. Years long daily Discord user here since before this became a big thing in flight simming. The issue isn't change or novelty, no matter how many times people post this assumption. 

What's more chaotic, discussing topics one at a time in separate rooms or a bunch of people in one room talking to people at the other end of the room about 5 different topics at the same time?

Discord is good but when there are too many people posting it's like that annoying person who doesn't seem to realize when others are in the middle of a conversation and just cannonballs right into it blabbering about something completely unrelated. 

In a forum that would be off-topic/hijacking a thread (basically what's happening right now ). I wouldn't wanna try having a detailed support conversation with a dev from a different time zone on Discord.

Edited January 8, 20233 yr by Nixoq

On 1/6/2023 at 3:53 AM, Bobsk8 said:

All the people whining about Discord, were probably whining about Usenet back in the day.

I can honestly remember you whining about Discord a year or two ago. If I had the time or cared enough, I'd go back and pull it up, but I distinctly remember you complaining about Discord because I agreed with you at the time.

9 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

And Discord many times gives a much  more knowledgeable answer and much quicker. 

And what is specific to discord that you think yields this result?  It's still just people typing messages to each other... What would be faster or result in more knowledge being transferred?

11 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

And Discord many times gives a much  more knowledgeable answer and much quicker. 

Strange as I find the Polar opposite in that here there are many users far more knowledgeable and that take the time to post thorough explanations here whereas  Discord channels attract the 100 character or less  type replies and an abundance of meme posting toxic teens (ala the official msfs discord), Some are great for organising group flights and general socialising but as knowledge bases not so much