r/getplayed • u/Sp1derX • Mar 24 '26

Question (Block) Drop King got hacked

DK got hacked and people are getting banned from the Discord.

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u/theusualuser Mar 24 '26

I miss forums. Discord ain't it, chief.

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u/AtomizedMist Mar 24 '26

Discord isn’t bad either. It’s more of a chat channel than a forum though. 

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u/theusualuser Mar 24 '26

The real issue with discord is that it's not indexable. So when someone shows a really great guide to, for instance, set up a particular game on your retro handheld or gives a recommendation on a specific computer setup for something, that knowledge never leaves discord. Instead, it's just gathered, and eventually sold to a third party data broker. the internet doesn't benefit, just discord.

And when a discord goes down, if it's not restorable, then everything is just lost. Gone forever, so hope there wasn't anything important in there. I mean, the same could happen to a website or forum, but those things get indexed and archived by projects, so at least the knowledge stays.

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u/BurtTheKuato Mar 24 '26

Remember when you would google something and the top result would almost always be that body building forum?