This sucks so much. I kept telling numerous people " #discord is NOT a forum, it is an IRC app, stop building your communities in it around stuff that needs to be found with a search engine and archived, it's a bad idea for numerous reasons including the overpopulation of server topics in an app that has a 100 server limit" but nobody listened. I hate being right.
We're about to have yet ANOTHER internet library of alexandria situation assuming this shit retroactively applies to existing stuff.
The sheer fact that their ToS are inacceptable and that they actively ban better 3rd party clients as well as #loginwall all content makes it useless for any #FLOSS projects.
@WMan22 I get that the internet finds its own uses for things, but building communities (especially tech support communities) around Discord just seems insane - it’s such a poor tool for those uses and far better alternatives exist.
How did Discord even become popular for this? Is it just gamers who wanted a Slack clone?
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To me it's absurd that people ever used #Discord when #Github, #Mumble, #IRC & Co. all predated it.
The sheer fact that their ToS are inacceptable and that they actively ban better 3rd party clients as well as #loginwall all content makes it useless for any #FLOSS projects.
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@WMan22 I get that the internet finds its own uses for things, but building communities (especially tech support communities) around Discord just seems insane - it’s such a poor tool for those uses and far better alternatives exist.
How did Discord even become popular for this? Is it just gamers who wanted a Slack clone?
@WMan22@silversword.online But did they listen? Noooooooooo....