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”.
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.
Just goes back to what the use case is. You’re alluding to a case where Discord is being used for content that should be easily searchable on the wide internet. Platforms like Discord including the FOSS alternatives aren’t good for that by their very design. The notion that every web service should be wide open and searchable is antithetical to privacy, which is ironically often cited as a huge downside to Discord. With the privately hosted Matrix instance I use with close friends for instance being isolated from the wide internet is the whole point.
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.
