person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:
- person looking ahead. the text below him says, “wow a cool software. let’s check out the community”
- screenshot with the text
Community
The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat. - hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
- person looking behind with the text “nevermind”.
discord is totally the best thing. Anyone on the internet want to explain why I’m wrong?
It’s an information blackhole. It sucks everything without any way to find it again. Even the forum and threads options they recently introduced, specifically to address this use case, are severely subpar compared to decades old alternatives.
On top of that, it’s a proprietary walled garden platform. If Discord decides to do anything against the communities for profit seeking there’s nothing, no one could do. Leaving hundreds of software projects without recourse for search, scrape, archive or retrieval in any way for all the knowledge deposited there.
It sucks everything without any way to find it again.
What’s the use case here exactly? Some servers are disorganized af and trying to use the platform in the wrong way. The search function seems to work fine for whatever I need it for though.
Point is you shouldn’t have to join any servers or make any accounts to simply find the info on a search engine. If a website like say reddit.com asked me to make an account just to view some link I followed there I would just nope out and curl the archived copy and grep for exact query, rinse and repeat until information is absorbed. With discord that’s not an option and that sucks.
If the forum features were used properly it’s not really any different than a traditional discourse forum board. Also being proprietary isn’t always a bad thing, and this is coming from an open source enthusiast. There are alternatives like guilded and another one called riot (not to be confused with riot software).
Edit: anyone want to explain why the down votes? I’m not wrong, you can create forums, pin posts, create forum categories and tag posts, it’s not a black hole if you take the effort and not make it a black hole. People just like to bitch and moan because “discord bad!”. Fuck off with that shit.
If we don’t care about FOSS or privacy or whatever, Discord is good as a chat service, but it really isn’t a replacement of something like a forum, website, or wiki.
Good place to ask a question, not a great place to look for the answer to a question yourself.
Ignoring the foss issue discord just needs slightly better fuzzy search and it would be amazing. Right now I’m usually able to find related discussion but it takes a few different keywords and I know that there’s probably something im missing out on because a single character is different…
From my experience with discord, more than one conversation is often happening at the same time in the same channel. For servers that are active enough, this can be as fast-paced as the chats in live streams.
Trying to parse if the answer that “OrthoDonkulous” gave is for the question that “Headshots247” asked, that “ProgrammerSox” asked, or that “BelieveUsFoetusJesus” asked is sometimes difficult.
it really isn’t a replacement of something like a forum, website, or wiki.
Discord adds streaming channels and effortless multimedia which is huge. What I do on Discord isn’t possible on these other examples.
It depends on what the goals of the project/group are.
Roughly 100-(1/∞)% of the time I don’t want anything involving video or sound, but I could see some projects/groups where things like streaming or audio would be useful.
I don’t have an issue with discord itself, it just seems to be being used as the default for nearly everything now, even when it shouldn’t be.
It’s legit bad for certain uses like any platform, sometimes people try to use it for those things. Linuxbros don’t like the idea of Discord in general regardless, for them the platform takes president over whatever people do on it, and assume that since the platform is bad anyone who uses it is stupid.
I don’t really care about the platform if it has good communities on it, and I’ve found a lot on Discord which I haven’t found anywhere else. I’m on an electronic music production server where people share works in progress, help each other, big names in the scene use it out of genuine interest as well. I’ve shared my own stuff and connected with people in the scene across the world to share our project files and instrument presets etc. Don’t really care about Discord though and would gladly use any platform with a community like this on it. Saying “Discord sucks” and referencing legit reasons why isn’t going to convince me it hasn’t been useful for passions I have offline.
Also I’ve hosted a weekly dnd sesh on Discord for three years now after we went through basically every other platform through trial and error. We had no loyalty to anything and Discord has just been the one that works. Super great for organizing a campaign we run through a virtual table top platform.
A lot of the FOSS alternatives are way better at a technical level, I use Matrix for our friend group’s privately hosted chat server every day. Haven’t found anything comparable to the communities I’ve found on Discord though.
Is appending -bros to anything you don’t like lingo du jour amongst the gen alpha 12 year olds or something?
you don’t realize this, but it’s actually your comment that identifies you as very young, not his.
