I never understood the move to synchronous communication for asynchronous questions. The ephemeral nature of discord is really a PITA. It’s like using IRC for a FAQ.

And search engines are unable to index the questions and answers, so good luck finding the already answered question.

Support is moving to discord which sucks massive ass.

It sucks but can you blame them? It's a natural response when people see that the old method (public posting and indexing) is being corrupted and grows increasingly irrelevant.

We're going to see more and more knowledge becoming insular and/or gated behind manual curation.

This doesn't necessarily have to mean Discord, can be private forums of any kind but private nonetheless. Discord may be the wrong tool but the problem it's being applied to is real.

Not to mention the people answering the questions are liable to just start accusing you of being an idiot if you make any less progress with their solution than "it's been fixed so hard that it gained five new functions I didn't even write into it!" I wrote a 3Js project once and ISTG the people on that discord had all the patience of a three year old who suddenly has to go to the bathroom the red second you've merged onto the highway.

Once upon a time, they stepped forth from the forests of IRC, but back into those dark woods they then one day marched.

I give it a few months before the Community tier servers' data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.

Discord is straight up unwelcome on corporate networks.

What?

Looks like downvoters don't get the joke. I first seen it on the cover of Horrible History.

Interesting, I still see it pretty consistently in the first few results in my experience and usually with a pretty recent one too

What options are there to use instead? I think they’re still often having the best results, and are usually near the top.

But are they losing the first positions because they're losing relevance, or is it due to other sites abusing seo and search engines abusing from advertising results?

This title doesn't mention it, but it was reported earlier that users editing their past posts against this move get banned for it.

I did on Friday and within 5 mins they suspended me and reverted them all. I knew they would so I didn't care - I just did it so they'd see as many unhappy users as possible.

I then deleted my account of over 10 years with over 50k reputation. Fuck stackoverflow.

I’m pretty sure they keep the revision history, so there’s no point in it

HaltAndCatchFire

Stack Overflow, technically a neutral term. Idk though whether the name in such a context would violate any trademark laws even if it's a non-profit platform.

Snack Overflow

Nullpointer Exception

Access Violation

Me over here still using none of them, just straight raw-dogging my variables

Because it's original work they contributed for free. Lending others that kind of expertise and time, just that it get's used by a machine learning algorithm, which aims to reproduce this, without giving it back to them or the community in a similar free manner, feels violating.
Apart from that, creators feel ownership over their content and it feels wrong not to be asked what happens to it. (Although those probably wouldn't – or shouldn't – use SO anyway, as their content gets commercialised anyway by giving it SO for free.)