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FLOSS communities right now (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 9 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[-] sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 43 points 9 months ago

It’s confusing to me why people think discord is a good replacement for forums. It’s not even the same paradigm - it’s a chat program. Not being indexed by search engines is a major drawback as well.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Searching shit is pretty damn important and Discord isn't optimal, definitely. But somehow it's better at searching than Lemmy! Now how does that happen?

[-] mac@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lemmy is indexed so can be found on search engines while discord cant

For internal search without using a search engine discord has had way more devs, time and money thrown at it. Still would say its barely better than lemmy (just is cause of the time filters)

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 0 points 9 months ago

Because you can make a Discord server in like one click basically. That's it. Also they have forum channels now on so-called community servers.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying Discord is better. I still hate how often it is used for things it shouldn't be and I hate that it isn't indexed by search engines. I'm just explaining.