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Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah I was hoping they would go to Discord or something.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Nah, Discord is really bad if you want to find actual information created by users.

They should either create something on Fediverse or go back to the good old Forum times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I feel like I date myself every time I tell people I want to go back to forums. It's why I liked reddit so much, and prefer Kbin. Small threads on topics are so much easier to follow than a 3,000 message chat interaction with 200 different topics strewn together.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

or go back to the good old Forum times.

And they're in a good position to do that. People can't complain "but I dun wanna make an account" when they already need one to play the game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Discord is by far the worst alternative. Not only is it worse than a reddit style forum, it has the same "eventually needs to make a profit" corporation ontop of it and when it goes to shit all the information there goes with it because unlike reddit Discord can't be archived.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, I honestly don't know why it's popular outside of making voice chat parties with text / image sharing as a backup.

As a community communication tool, it's a big mess. Just a glorified version of IRC which is hard to follow and search. The lack of archiving just makes it that much worse.

[–] Riven 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's popular because it was one of the better 'gaming' voice chats to come out back in the day. Skype was garbage and teamspeak was a bit more difficult to use for people not that tech savvy, I'm speaking from experience here. It was a pain to try and help some friends get on it and understand how it worked. Discord was easy to get people set up on and it was relatively sleek.

Now a days there's plenty of other options beside it, I've been dabbling on guilded and the new teamspeak is actually pretty solid UI wise. Steam voice chat is legit great, at least for only a couple of people at a time. I haven't limit tested it though.