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timmattison on Feb 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Discord is a black hole for information

Sure. But when you first join there is no history which means that anyone new to the channel would ask the same questions because there was nothing they could search.

magicalhippo on Feb 12, 2022 [–]

Exactly, and it won't search for stuff that was written when your client, or the bot, wasn't running.

Sure, you could set up bouncers and whatnot. But it's a barrier that Discord doesn't have.

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