Post by Rex on May 21, 2022 22:49:53 GMT
I was watching a few lost media videos on YouTube and it got me thinking. Discord has been becoming a huge force for internet communication, and as good for chatting as it is it's extremely hard to archive. A lot of online communities and subcultures have most of their development and information on Discord - not to mention how some developers will put their documentation on Discord. The problem is you can't look back on conversations in a Discord server unless you have a working invite and the server hasn't been deleted and there isn't anything like an archive to the net feature.
I've seen a few online communities which have become more Discord-focused struggle even with trying to track events from the past few years. You're just out of luck if the server gets deleted. While it may not be a problem now or even in the next few years, in the future could this cause a problem for archival, and make looking back on internet of this time period harder than it was in the decades before? And what can we do about it?
(To be clear I'm not against Discord as a platform nor is Discord the only service with this problem - I'm just used to it and use it a lot.)
