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Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by [deleted] »

joenot443 wrote: post #124
Springtime wrote: post #54

Ultimately someone has to pay for things. Many communities have apparently decided they don't want to use even modern forum software and become a webmaster, along with avoiding the costs and time associated, or use someone else's existing forum (which may or may not suit their needs). The quite liberal free file attachment limits (25MB each), ease of communication and ironically the fact Discord is closed off in natu…

My sad realization is that in today’s nerd world, there just aren’t that many teenage webmasters. Unix and DNS and Apache just aren’t very sexy or fun to learn when the other cool kids are playing with LLMs and Flutter and WebGL. Obviously _we’d_ prefer if they learned to setup vBulletin and do it our way, but when Discord is free and all their friends are on it, it’s a tough sell to the other nerds. It’s not a “kids…

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Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by tmaly »

It use to be join this Facebook group, now everyone is pushing private discord servers.

I think the old phpBB was way better. But if there was some type of way to output the static html, it would benefit everyone in the long term.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by sneak »

stnmtn wrote: post #160
sneak wrote: post #65

Stop using Discord for “just chatting”, too. It’s not end to end encrypted and Discord and whoever acquires them can read all of your chat logs, including DMs, for AI training or whatever else. Friends don’t talk to friends on surveillance platforms.

Are forums not this way as well?

They are, but most people don’t expect privacy in forum DMs, and forum site DMs aren’t usually used that much.

Lots of people mistakenly assume their DMs on Discord (and their iMessages) will be private.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by stnmtn »

hprotagonist wrote: post #203
hu3 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

also: - edit/delete messages - code highlight - notifications - fast search that works for everyone: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...

most of these things are client-specific but available with IRC. (edits aren’t)

How long would it take to explain to someone who just wants to voice/video chat with their friends how they can set this functionality up with the same ease as discord? And how much will it cost for them to do that?

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

cl3misch wrote: post #109
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have both. The forum I use also have a irc-like chat section.

Do you care to share what forum that is? And is its irc-like chat section searchable? Otherwise it is just forum and chat available under the same domain. But information in the IRC section is still ephemeral.

rdrama .net. We have a cute orange cat as our mascot.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by TeMPOraL »

skydhash wrote: post #187
benoliver999 wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah it's annoying when someone joins and people have to re-explain what we were just talking about

Like you do for physical gatherings?

Yes, if it's relevant, e.g. when running an actual community. But physical gatherings have the advantage of not going on continuously 24/7. My experience with Discord, aa well as communities run by IRC earlier, is that if you log out before work and log in after, you'll spend an hour or more just going through the backlog.

Chats are for kids, students and unemployed.

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Post by CivBase »

Ekaros wrote: post #189
CivBase wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Features. Is there any other tool that offers persistant text, voice, and video chats plus screen sharing? I've gone looking and there is simply no alternative with core feature parity.

There is, but who wants to use Teams or others for hobbies... In the end there is nothing special about Discord, but it does most things people want well enough.

I use Teams for work and to my knowledge it does not have persistant voice/video chats. You have to deliberately start a call and invite people. That's not the same and doesn't lend itself near as well to facilitating online hangouts. It makes sense for a business setting, but not so much in a more personal setting.

Re: Stop Using Discord

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Post by Andrex »

NemoNobody wrote: post #36

Ok... does Mastodon always take that long too load? That's not really viable considering the page I ended up on had essentially only textual content - like an old website from way back. Then I read a Geocities suggestion - something from my elementary days Discord is actually pretty cool - a walled garden but no different than the rest of the internet. Google won't send anyone to forums or blogs/personal sites anyway…

Mastodon will continue to suck as long as their default client refuses to support noscript access.

> Google won't send anyone to forums or blogs/personal sites anyways, so this isn't really advice at all

They had that capability in the past, and may again in the future, to say nothing of possible competitors focusing on forum or blog search specifically.

Discord is a black box and that data will be lost forever. That's different from publishing on the public web.

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