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I've been meaning to make this thread for a bit now, anyways with the Sonic Hacking Contest going on this week it reminded me of a Twitter post that the SHC Twitter account quote replied to. Another member on Twitter mentioned that you can't have a community for research purposes on Discord, though the SHC Twitter disagreed. However, I completely agree with the other person, you really cannot have a community based around research just on Discord alone. I'm sure the majority of us here would agree with me on this. Discord is great for communities that just want to interact with other members in real time, and work well for Youtubers but for research purposes it really cannot be the only platform a community is on. Going with my example, the Sonic Hacking Community relies on guides to help people modify the Sonic games, and these guides are hosted on websites that usually have forums. In fact, most of these guides are posted on forums before being added to a wiki. Discord just isn't organized enough for this, plus servers are never crawled like websites are. Plus Discord can pull the plug on their services at any time, they won't now of course since it's popular but in the future when people want to go back and look at their old conversations they'll be lost to time in a server. So I ask, can you really use Discord alone for a community based around research?