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Slack vs Discord for Community Communication

TLDR David queried why Slack was chosen over Discord. Jason reasoned that Discord may not be suitable in a professional setting and informed about threads indexing by struct.ai. Axel advocated for Discord for its integrated features.

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Sep 12, 2023 (2 weeks ago)
David
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David
02:19 AM
is there any reason Slack was chosen over Discord? Slack is good for internal team communication but not great as a community portal, imo
Jason
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Jason
02:21 AM
> Slack is good for internal team communication but not great as a community portal
I agree with that... But Discord also feels very gimmicky IMO, and still very gamer focussed than a general community IM software.

For eg, I wonder if everyone would feel comfortable installing Discord on their work computers, where they might be logged into all their casual Discord servers.
David
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David
02:56 AM
that's fair. my issue with slack is the 10k message limit on free plans, and I don't think they support a paid plan that accepts "community" guest users, unless things have changed
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David
02:56 AM
with a community hub lots of valuable info is lost with that 10k limit
Jason
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Jason
02:57 AM
Oh yeah that is a pain indeed. Thankfully we have struct.ai periodically indexing all old threads on threads.typesense.org
David
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David
02:59 AM
woah, that's amazing, how did I not know that existed...
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David
03:00 AM
the interface for threads is unfortunate, the search isn't using Typesense!!
Jason
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Jason
03:02 AM
Haha, Slack search you mean - one day! 😄
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Jason
03:02 AM
The search on threads.typesense.org is powered by Typesense though - meta!
David
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David
03:02 AM
this one?
Image 1 for this one?
Jason
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Jason
03:02 AM
Yup!
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Jason
03:03 AM
It's in fact semantic search.
David
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David
03:03 AM
damn it's like you thought this through 😉
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Jason
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Jason
03:03 AM
Not me - Struct.ai is a product built by Manish!
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Sep 15, 2023 (1 week ago)
Axel
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Axel
10:23 AM
Lots of professional users on discord and especially devs - voice and screen sharing is better integrated