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While looking for Discord alternatives I came across this project which looks like a great alternative for the kinds of Discord servers centered around Open Source projects and organizations. Ones where live chat and voice rooms aren't the focus.

It's a combination of forums and knowledge base that would be perfect for this use case.

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[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Love this... Will take a spin for my OpenAstra

[–] lambalicious 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] lambalicious 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's 2026, being vibecoded is a self-explanatory problem.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, I have seen so many classic coders write shitty unmaintainable and insecure code that I don't think that NOT being vibe coded mean anything.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's like the difference bewteen publicly-traded and privately-owned companies. Publicly-traded companies are guaranteed to enshittify due to fiduciary duty. Privately-owned companies could enshittify, but it's not guaranteed.

A human programmer could be shit but at least they're not guaranteed to be shit like the vibe coding AI

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like the analogy...

But at the end of the day better to have something that starts shitty but can be improved over time rather than nothing.

If it stays shitty, then it's just shit and won't go anywhere.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And how is it supposed to get less shit if it's vibe coded? The programmer didn't learn anything when making the initial build

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe other devs join and improve the code, or maybe the original del learns and improve, or maybe he was already good bit had zero time and after a while goes back to improve the vibe coded project....

I prefer to judge by the results rather than by the means used.

[–] lambalicious 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The era of not judging the means ended in, like, 1066 or smth. Vibe-coded stuff for example means burning down a couple of forests just so the AI can propose where to place a semicolon, long before a "result" is even visible.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its a common practice in bars and coffee shops in italy to keep a faucet running all day to always have cold water at hand. You should stop drinking coffe than to save clean water....

[–] lambalicious 1 points 1 day ago

To be fair, I should have stopped drinking coffee 10 years ago for my blood pressure.