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Hideki Motosuwa
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Andy

@wildebest and the server is 95% racist memes

28 October at 11:31 | Open on mastodon.scot
Kai Klostermann

@wildebest Honestly, if you have no better idea of good documentation at least use #zulip.

28 October at 15:00 | Open on floss.social
Natasha Nox πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

@OddDev @wildebest Even a freaking textfile in the same repo is better than Discord. Even if it doesn't even come as .md but plain .txt

28 October at 21:15 | Open on chaos.social
Duncan

@wildebest yeah… no. Not the right service or system for documentation. I just… no.

28 October at 15:06 | Open on merveilles.town
Quenti ✨:oc: ⏚
iced quinn
@wildebest check for the VC money behind the curtain too. :comfypeek:
28 October at 16:25 | Open on blob.cat
djsumdog
Hyprland has both a Discord and a Matrix room, and their documentation sits outside of the chats ... still wish they just had a regular forum though.
28 October at 16:37 | Open on djsumdog.com
shy echo :neocat_blush_hide:

@wildebest@mastodon.online i actually havent seen this a lot, could you show an example? im curious :P

28 October at 16:42 | Open on woem.men
Fae Empress
Count me out too. Even a simply readme.md would make me happy if it's on Github.
28 October at 16:46 | Open on friendica.ca
Nazo

@wildebest One of these days Discord is going to do the bad stuff other centralized social networks are doing. It's only a matter of time and my guess isn't much more time from now.

It's truly amazing people aren't figuring this out. And it's not just open source now. I'm seeing even actual companies do this. (Companies could even host their own Matrix instances. Or even just stick with the tried and true "click here to send an email." Literally no excuse. And most open source centralization sites like Github or Sourceforge or etc have discussion mechanisms built in... No need even to go external even if you like being centralized.

It makes absolutely no sense and it's going to come back to bite quite a lot of us.

@wildebest One of these days Discord is going to do the bad stuff other centralized social networks are doing. It's only a matter of time and my guess isn't much more time from now.

It's truly amazing people aren't figuring this out. And it's not just open source now. I'm seeing even actual companies do this. (Companies could even host their own Matrix instances. Or even just stick with the tried and true "click here to send an email." Literally no excuse. And most open source centralization sites...

28 October at 17:03 | Open on urusai.social
condret :verified: :ancom:
Clyde

@wildebest I assume this means you've set up a wiki or other static page based documentation for your own open source software?

28 October at 18:20 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
FPS DEV GUY

@clyde @wildebest a simple git directory with markdown files is better than discord. Static site are also easy nowadays to setup.

29 October at 2:24 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Clyde

@tengkuizdihar @wildebest It's still work. These things take time, effort, and energy that get balanced against things like day jobs, hugging loved ones, petting cats, etc. as well as the main development of the project.

I got like five years into my project before starting a dokuwiki for it and I wouldn't have known where to start or what to emphasize if I didn't get to interact with developers with questions in real time.

Setup may be easy, but writing is hard.

29 October at 2:41 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
FPS DEV GUY

@clyde @wildebest I agree, but the post does raise a valid point, that wiki like documentation is better than whatever effort you give to a discord server.

Also, I forgot to mention most git hoster already have a wiki built in. Even a relatively new and small project like forgejo.

29 October at 3:53 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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