Stop Using Discord for Wikis, FAQs, and Other Knowledge Bases
How Discord is destroying knowledge
I have created mods for multiple games in the past, and there was always a wiki or forum, with at the top a well-structured list of linked threads or articles, sorted by category. You would go to the wiki, open the “getting started” guide, and it would be a list of links to pages such as “how to install the modloader”, “how to set up a mod”, “how to add items’, etc.
A while back, after a few years of not modding, I wanted to mod a game I actively played at the moment. It had a pretty active modding scene, so I expected something just like in the past. A wiki or forum. I was surprised to see that the whole modding community, containing thousands of people, was a giant Discord server.
I am not against Discord in general. I have my own Discord server for viewers of my YouTube channel, and I’m also in a few small Discord servers for things like friend groups and mastermind groups. For those types of things it works great.
What I am against, is using Discord to store information.
Why not use Discord to store information?
Discord is inherently chronological. Things that are newer are on the “frontpage”, and you have to scroll up to go…
