Meanwhile... the mastodon page takes over 3 minutes to load. I don't know of any pre-2010 forums that are still functional and searchable.
somethingawful
Stop Using Discord
31–40 of 244 posts
Re: Stop Using Discord
#32I totally agree, and also stop using FB groups it's even worse. But the issue is no replacement is proposed by the author. Discord has the advantage of: - being free - being maintained by someone else - being used by a lot of people, so no need to create a new account for many users - being very useful as a chat and growing organically as support from there I don't see many competitors available. For example discours…
libera.chat is free. the network doesn’t compel registration, even! (though some channels do)
unfortunately, irc is not a replacement for discord.
Re: Stop Using Discord
#33Discord and Reddit are terrible dark holes of knowledge
At least reddit is indexed by search engines, right? I find that for a significant portion of my searches, appending "reddit" cuts through SEO/blogspam results and I get an answer without having to wade through too much nonsense.
For now. How long until they put it behind a sign in barrier ala Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, etc?
Re: Stop Using Discord
#34I don't like Discord as much as the next person, but people use Discord because it's convenient. Why do people prefer Discord to IRC when the latter is free, open source, and indexable?
You already answered yourself. Convenience and because your friends are already there or because that one thing hosts its forum there.
Re: Stop Using Discord
#35Any recommendations for a free engineering community forum?
Re: Stop Using Discord
#36Ok... 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 anyways, so this isn't really advice at all
Re: Stop Using Discord
#37I feel like we have this discussion every month, one way or another.
People use Discord because it's useful and they like the experience. Discourse is nice for purely written communication but if you want to setup a call, direct message and, more importantly, write bots (presentation, topic organization, news, modding, now even AI Q&A); people will fall back to Discord.
Pointing at Discourse when it doesn't have the same value proposition and blaming users is just not useful at all.
Re: Stop Using Discord
#38I don't like Discord as much as the next person, but people use Discord because it's convenient. Why do people prefer Discord to IRC when the latter is free, open source, and indexable?
Flashy UI, channel grouping, custom emoji, server side persistent logs and now the network effect of most likely not having to ask someone to install and learn the ins and outs of another program.
Matrix comes the closest to fitting all the same requirements, but I've only ever managed to get one friend to regularly use it, and even then we only use it between ourselves and not to participate in federated matrix servers.
Re: Stop Using Discord
#39Meanwhile... the mastodon page takes over 3 minutes to load. I don't know of any pre-2010 forums that are still functional and searchable.
>I don't know of any pre-2010 forums https://www.vogons.org/ ->Since 2002 https://bbs.archlinux.org -> Since 2003 And so on, just to name two important ones.
[deleted]
Re: Stop Using Discord
#40I don't like Discord as much as the next person, but people use Discord because it's convenient. Why do people prefer Discord to IRC when the latter is free, open source, and indexable?
If you are offline on IRC you don't get messages.
I use a bouncer etc but that's more than the average person should have to worry about. There is https://www.irccloud.com/ but I fear it's too little too late
Having to create an account on every IRC server is also not great.
I use and love IRC, but I get why centralised services take off. It's just a shame it's a sucky one like discord where everything just goes into a black hole.