Discord is now in its second decade as a company and is about to make it public. Along the way, we changed the way online communities interacted, turning groups that previously could have existed as forums or message boards into multi-channel instant messaging servers. Now, whether it's Midjourney (Discord's biggest server), an AI platform like the international gaming community, school clubs, and more, everything is finding a home on Discord.
But the message board still serves its purpose. Sometimes more progressive and organized commentary on forums can be valuable, but in contrast to the speed of real-time casual chats, users can be flooded with overwhelming numbers of unread messages, obscuring the most useful information.
According to The Verge, Discord's SVP SVP, Peter Sellis, says the company is thinking of ways to solve the problem. He said Discord would like to tackle a feature that “probably allows for better investment work through structured knowledge sharing like a forum.”
Another proposed solution to this confusion is to summarise a long stream of messages using LLM. However, the culture of incompatible users is very different, and AI embraces can simultaneously excite and anger viewers.
With LLMS, Discord said it can have long, winding conversations and turn it into “something that could be more shared and syndicated across the web.” However, he said that he and his team “have never seen a solution that we still find great.”
With a new CEO at the helm and an imminent IPO, Discord is probably taking part in for some updates.