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Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by eddythompson80 »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #133
eddythompson80 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, like IRC but with a better interface,

Better? Sure, for you maybe. Overwhelmingly the word I'd use to describe Discord's interface is "one". There is one interface. It's an interface that most people seem to like, but we've lost an important freedom there. It's against the EULA to modify your client or use an alternative one. If with IRC one can have any interface, I would not call Discord's better.

Maybe it changed, but how do you share a screenshot on IRC?

Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

kobstrtr wrote: post #88

Agree on the downsides, although communities are a great way to exchange and discuss a project. Instead, why don‘t we just keep the benefits of discord and build tools around it to manage its knowledge? We can publish it, we can use it for AI assistant, basically anything is possible. Disclaimer: I‘m the founder of awesomeqa.xyz

"why make a good solution when we can bodge around a crappy solution using scraping and AI?"

Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by musicale »

jraph wrote: post #100
postpawl wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discourse is open source: https://github.com/discourse/discourse You could hook it up to a mail provider and can host it yourself for less if you wanted.

I'm appalled by the number of people answering this comment very negatively / quickly dismissing the self hosting option with a hostile tone. Guys, it was very common for (side-)projects to self host a forum in the 2000s, what changed since then so that many people find this unreasonable? Or are you a vocal minority? It's not like you have to host a service that needs 5 figures SLA. I understand that people may not l…

> Guys, it was very common for (side-)projects to self host a forum in the 2000s, what changed since then so that many people find this unreasonable

I greatly prefer forums to ephemeral IRC or walled-garden Discord/Slack/etc. However I don't like the moderation time commitment, especially with in a climate of aggressive spambots and twitter-style idiocy at scale.

I also like blog comments, but those seem to have largely split into spam-filled cesspools on one hand and "comments are now closed" (after 10ms) on the other. HN is something of an exception, but I'm sure it requires aggressive and time-consuming moderation.

Constant security threats also make self-hosting an ongoing maintenance headache even if it's in the cloud.

Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by xigoi »

personjerry wrote: post #125

This article looks like it was written by ChatGPT tbh. The arguments are kinda weak, borderline nonsensical. > Chaos Discord can be a whirlwind of madness. Important stuff you post can vanish into the ether within seconds, drowned by a never-ending stream of messages. Already it looks like ChatGPT made a formatting mistake, what is "Chaos Discord"? Pretty sure it should says "Chaos - Discord..." It also concedes that…

I don't think ChatGPT would use such casual language, especially phrases like “Here’s a curveball for you”.

Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by joy_void_joy »

I agree that the discord centralization for Q&A is becoming problematic, it makes it less discoverable and searchable (Had this problem a lot with Svelte).

That said, I have had success so far using https://www.answeroverflow.com/ to search discord for questions. It sucks we have to use such tools, but given the current situation, it's also better to adapt.

Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by personjerry »

xigoi wrote: post #145
personjerry wrote: post #125

This article looks like it was written by ChatGPT tbh. The arguments are kinda weak, borderline nonsensical. > Chaos Discord can be a whirlwind of madness. Important stuff you post can vanish into the ether within seconds, drowned by a never-ending stream of messages. Already it looks like ChatGPT made a formatting mistake, what is "Chaos Discord"? Pretty sure it should says "Chaos - Discord..." It also concedes that…

I don't think ChatGPT would use such casual language, especially phrases like “Here’s a curveball for you”.

I have seen it do so. Depends on the prompt, you can ask it to write in any style.

Re: Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum

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Post by RadiozRadioz »

eddythompson80 wrote: post #141
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better? Sure, for you maybe. Overwhelmingly the word I'd use to describe Discord's interface is "one". There is one interface. It's an interface that most people seem to like, but we've lost an important freedom there. It's against the EULA to modify your client or use an alternative one. If with IRC one can have any interface, I would not call Discord's better.

Maybe it changed, but how do you share a screenshot on IRC?

Use Pidgin or The Lounge and do it like normal.

Whether we should be using text chat clients as FTP clients is another issue, XMPP is better for multimedia messaging.

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