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I love every part of this except the part where you have to sign up for discord if you want help.
It's a fucking black hole for information. I hate that they don't direct people to at least GitHub issues or GitHub discussions.
Even worse are the people that have an open GitHub repo for their project and then tell you to go seek help on discord when you open a GitHub issue.
Its worse, it is basically temporary information archives that can disappear at any time, plus security BS. There is going to a 10 year gap of lost information when Discord goes away/becomes unusable. Forums last forever, I have a backup for one that nobody has used in 10 years, that information could never be lost.
Yeah, the way Discord has taken over the role of forums is less than ideal. It speaks to a shift in communication culture, and it's unfortunate that public solutions to this seem to be unavailable or at least not widely known.
Honestly there probably are better solutions, but every time some Silicon Valley pet project gets a ton of venture capital and starts "disrupting" so it's everywhere all the time . . . that's what most people are gonna start using by default.
So we don't get to see better options truly adopted, and it's incredibly frustrating...
Discord, the cancer that replaced IRC. Which was an earlier form of cancer, but at least more disposable.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with IRC.
Wouldn't mind if it were upgraded with some E2E goodness nowadays but otherwise...I kinda missed my chance to get it on it, I feel.
how is IRC cancer?
It's what the 'C' stands for. Internet Relay Cancer.
Everyone likes to cancer with their friends. Call them up on the 'phone to have a cancer.
Lots of contentious studies suggest this was totally a thing with some cellular technology! Lol