Please god no. So much info is already getting dumped to discord and nowhere else making searching or archiving impossible, we don't need more of that.
Discord no doubt keeps every conversation ever typed on their servers. they might toss out something huge like a movie file but text compresses -very- well.
Sending something to discord is like sending it to /dev/null except that it is also diverted into the mailbox of Big Brother, with you having only very limited access to it on their whim.
Reddit is about discovering content. How would you discover anything on Discord? Is there a trending list to see the top messages? Is there a way to list Discord communities so you can discover ones matching your interest?
I'm at a lost to how the two are similar in any way except for the "young generations" use them both.
You can search for public servers in the Discord app by keyword, but not for specific posts across all servers. It's more comparable to Reddit but without the frontpage, or structured posts.
My partner scrolls through the popular section nightly reading interesting things and chuckling at memes. I think you're out of touch with how many people use Reddit in this casual, low investment way.
They still need the content creators to create :) which I think they have done a good job of at least creating FOMO of top posts gathering monitory props.
I use /r/all exclusively. I have an account and subscribe to subreddits, but I never go to the home screen. I do check some subreddits directly. Otherwise just /r/all.
the vast majority of reddit users today do not do anything beyond scroll through default subreddits and the front page, people who curate their own experience to ONLY be what they selected are an extreme minority.
I disagree. A lot of other people are pointing out the discoverability problem (which I agree is an issue), but I think the medium just isn't comparable.
Chat is ephemeral and it there's a certain amount of participation expected, where as Reddit content strikes a nice balance of changing frequently, but not instantaneous and, for most users, it's a passive activity. To put it another way, most people aren't doom-scrolling on a discord server.
This, and also that chat platforms don't really have a crowd voting system. The thing I like about HN is that people can vote on content to have it promoted or demoted. Obviously this has its own issues, but I'm not aware of any big social platforms that do this. Twitter kind of does, but it functions a bit different.
Tbf Discord forums are so catastrophically badly designed in terms of UI that they're pretty much unusable.
Ultimately if you want good discussion you need the same layout that Reddit and HN have, with indented comments and easily branching chains. Otherwise it's just a chat masquerading as a forum thread which is useless.
The best UI would probably be a mixture of a forum and reddit. A fourm is a much superior model because it lacks upvotes/downvotes and is chronologically ordered, but lacks branching and chains that you describe. Reddit currently is being used more similarly to the forum culture than anything else.
Obviously Discord is chat focused so not a one-to-one replacement but I am not sure that the younger generations will care.
Plus there is the possibility of discord adding a Reddit/forum like feature, since they already have the mindshare.