God I fucking hate discord as a centralized place for anything open source. Seriously anything else. It's just such a bad place to dissiminate information.
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"Join our Discord"
Ugh. Why. I don't want to hang out in your chatroom.
Discord has such a ridiculous, unfriendly layout, too; almost any other platform has a better UI...
I think this is double sided
Yes it is unfriendly but do you remember how it was pre discord? Communities built around vent and teamspeak?
Discord is a step up from that but it needs to remain a community hub, not a full repository of information. "Visit our website" on the main page is necessary most of the time.
Also discord has forum posts. These are awful and you can only have like 200 active posts or some rudimentary and small count which means you cant really use it as a forum (let alone the unintuitive layout of them)
Communities before discord were forums. No fucking community was built around teamspeak or vent. They had them, but they were built around forums or the in game systems of various MMOs.
MMOs use to be actual glorified IRC and chat rooms that just happened to have a game attached. That was the entire point.
Forums were the bread and butter, that's were you got the voice coms info.
At best you have tiny friend groups that only hung out in a voice coms. But the actual community was NOT ts3 or vent
I've never used Vent nor Teamspeak, either. I just don't get why Reddit's/Lemmy's excellent threading can't be followed more closely. I understand that IMs fire rapidly and can bury threads up above, but the current format is just too unwieldy for mass discussion.
Actually, it's the lack of E2E that I dislike the most. There doesn't seem to be any easy way to solve real-time child comments, but at least Matrix is E2E. Revolt, while not E2E (and lacking video-streaming), can at least be self-hosted as well. Where Discord excels insanely is in its live screen-sharing; nothing comes close except maybe Google Meet and Zoom.
I don't use it for gaming, but for backing up a social club that does IRL events, and I'll say Discord is the worst thing ever until you consider the alternatives.
WhatsApp was ok but the featureset just wasn't good enough. I sure do hope Discord gets their shit together but they don't seem motivated to improve it.
I've recently started using Discord more to play with friends and my god, the UI is so awful.
Even as someone that likes and uses Discord, I don't want to join their Discord. It's so much harder to find answers than just using a search engine, and if it's something I'm using for work, then I have to create a new account and everything
Why did this become a thing? Don’t they get sick of answering the same question every day?
The annoying thing is they won't allow you ask the fucking questions. They just remove your comment and say check the sticky.
I hate them
Even better when it's inside of a voice channels chat rooms sticky. So it's hidden three fucking layers deep ina. Feature no one even realizes exists.
Dumb kids that don't know any better, basically.
The "they" that make the decision not to invest in proper documentation are not the "they" who will have to answer the same question over and over... that's somebody else's problem.
But that's why forums exist. My guess is they just want to mine more data to sell.
What extra data would they get from Discord over a forum?
In my experience, it's usually smaller projects that do this. I'm guessing it's just easier/cheaper for them to throw it on discord than setup a proper forum/wiki, because that's the platform they're already familiar with
#1 reason I hate it is the fact it's not globally searchable. That and the fact Discord search isn't great is probably why they're answering the same questions over and over
Yeah lack of search engine indexing is why I’ve avoided discord. But now that the search engines are dying and slopifying, I’m not sure it really matters.
My favorite is when you're interested in downloading a mod or fan game and the only place it exists is as a link to a google drive on discord.
Holy shit, learn how to use technology please.
I think it’s because if it’s on a site, it’s going to get taken down quick, especially if it’s even adjacent to Nintendo. Hosting rom hacks, fan games, etc on their own sites is stupid AF. It’s how all the other idiots keep getting in trouble.
Goes double for roms in general. Large torrents are 1000x better than rom sites.
All knowledge that only exists on discord will be lost
Yup, having to join each server to access information means we (I presume) won't be able to archive it via ArchiveTeam Warrior.
Within minutes.
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I joined a discord of a very popular app recently. I do not know why devs like this in any way. If I was them I'd burn it down after the first day. The only thing in the discord is people posting the same few problems over and over and over. It so bad they not only have one bot but 3 that respond with it looks. Like your questing has been asked before please look here... With likes to people asking the same question but with no answer because its some AI trying to help. Even when you try to help someone and reply back with a correct answer you get spammed by these 3 bots. I had to block the 3 bots before I could do anything pertaining to conversation with someone. Why do we live like this...
A well documented FAQ on a forum would be so much more helpful than this discord garbage. I am someone who does read the fucking manual. But when your manual is a link to discord you deserve to be spamed with the same question 10000'ed times.
But that's not cool like AI running in a container in a flatpack in a VM on the cloud in a Docker giving you useless information!
All I read was AI so I know it's good
/s
me: you got instructions on how to do this?
google: best i can do is a 20 minute youtube video with no timestamps or a reddit post to a post answered with a deleted post take your pick
yeah we need more wikihow articles on everything
I just want an api documentation, please 😫
swagger is fine too if you don't got anything else. please anything but the discord docs
Going through this right now, when a system update broke the game I was playing and the only support channel for my distro is Discord (so far, no one has replied to me on discord 🙁)
I wish more distros followed Arch's footsteps and built comprehensive Wikis
Everyone told me that Arch was hard so I avoided it for years. They were wrong, the wiki makes Arch a lot easier than most other popular distros. It's so comprehensive! Bless those contributors. No wading through bulletin board archeology, decaying reddit threads, or half-relevant stack exchange questions.
I mean, most of the time, the Arch Wiki is just as useful on other distros, too...
It really is! I've used it to troubleshoot Debian issues too! The Arch wiki enriches the entire Linux community.
The only people who say arch is hard or breaks randomly haven't fucking used it in ten years.
It breaks less then Ubuntu and has easier documentation that's more up to date. And an actual community EVERYWHERE to ask questions to.
Which distro?
It's Nobara, a Fedora derivative. I've used it for probably 3 years now, with some brief hops to other distros in the middle, and it's always been great. Really it's just Fedora with gaming related stuff preinstalled to make it effortless.
I actually made a post here, but I think I solved the controller problem and the game is still crashing (even without the controller connected, but the system no longer crashes) so maybe I should make a new post.
If this is the case, move important stuff to a physical backup and get out of that distro yesterday.
Unless it is something that I really need, and I can't find an alternative for, the phrase "join our discord for support and updates" is a sure sign that I will not, in fact, be using that product.
I agree with the point, but thats not how that meme format works.
"Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a… canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?"
"Can you?"
... [stunned expression]
Thats the original text, so this is really not the right format.
This but also for Reddit.
love companies that have no support forum or email but instead ask you to go to the reddit community.
modding bethesda games be like
At least NexusMods has a forum though.
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