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Probably a lost cause of even mentioning this, and I might get flamed but...
... one of the reasons I love video game online forums and have been posting on them for the better part of 15 years is because they are an amazing repository of community knowledge.
That knowledge can be accessed at any time, searched, updated, and added to.
I can't count the number of times I have done exactly this, looking up a post from over 10 years ago to solve a repair issue.
Discord, or any other chat based application for that matter, would mark the end of this if they become the new norm. The cumbersome search function makes for poor information cataloguing. And these apps come and go over the years, taking the treasures of their shared repair information with them. It simply isn't the same.
For my part, I will continue to post here on the forums and help those with repair needs. I won't be posting on Discord. I want to keep these forums alive <3
... one of the reasons I love video game online forums and have been posting on them for the better part of 15 years is because they are an amazing repository of community knowledge.
That knowledge can be accessed at any time, searched, updated, and added to.
I can't count the number of times I have done exactly this, looking up a post from over 10 years ago to solve a repair issue.
Discord, or any other chat based application for that matter, would mark the end of this if they become the new norm. The cumbersome search function makes for poor information cataloguing. And these apps come and go over the years, taking the treasures of their shared repair information with them. It simply isn't the same.
For my part, I will continue to post here on the forums and help those with repair needs. I won't be posting on Discord. I want to keep these forums alive <3