• Hootz@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Can we just go back to personal websites and forums?

    Also fuck discord use mumble

    • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      It’s even worse when open source projects point you towards their discord for questions and support.

      It’s just a black hole for information

      • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        I hate that so much, especially when GitHub lets have your own wiki. It’s just lazy devs.

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            8 months ago

            Naw, they just like to see that 60-70% unanswered rate for problems and issues. Makes for the best community support.

            Highest effort, lowest reward.

      • Hootz@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Fucking feel that hard, I just nope the fuck outta there.

    • dai@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Discord is trash, had issues with a KBDFans product, something as simple as a search of a forum would have given me the solution. I had to talk to a human to get the required information. They sent me a link to a firmware to download and all was good.

      If I was able to search a forum it would have been a 2 minute job, but I wasted someone else’s time, on the other side of the globe.

    • halva@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      please do show me a single messaging platform that can easily and sanely house a population of >50k people on the same server, and allows that for absolutely free, while providing reasonably high quality voice messaging and streaming with negligible latency

      • Laser@feddit.de
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        8 months ago

        While discord doesn’t necessarily cost money, it for sure also isn’t free. In fact it’s the reddit problem but way worse. A proprietary non-searchable database with all content fully licensed to discord including the right to sub-license. At least, Reddit had an API and is still searchable through their public facing http. I mean I get people don’t want their group messages readable by everyone, bit for large groups, it makes sense.

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          8 months ago

          No it does not.
          The Group chat is a chat.
          The public chat is basically a never ending forum post with 100 pages.

      • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        Why would I ever want that?

        I can’t think of a single instance where I want to be messaging 50k people at once

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            8 months ago

            I was gonna be like weeeell but the population of c/technology is in fact 52k so

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            8 months ago

            I am posting something publicly but I am not holding a conversation with all of you simultaneously

            If this was equivalent then you would have never seen my message due to the time between ours

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Join my discord for tutorials on how to setup your own static webpage!