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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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[–] fizzle@quokk.au 21 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Some kind of weird WebGL error on their site I've never seen before.

Doesn't load for me.

LibreWolf doesn't seem to be offering to activate canvas.

Oh well.

[–] Mnmalst@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same for me, why does a forum software need webgl?

[–] lambalicious 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It's not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But, background is dynamic. You can see it has some kind of fancy moving dots. It's totally unnecessary, but clearly WebGL was used for that.

[–] lambalicious 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, so it is, hadn't noticed it at first.

And, sure enough, disabling webgl in about:config causes the page to throw the error, instead of degrading gracefully. An animation of random dots is not at all necessary to expose about a product that is a web forum.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There is also a 3D spinning globe, so that too.

[–] lambalicious 1 points 1 day ago

Once again, something that is absolutely not needed to explain what a forum software is and thus, should degrade gracefully. To a static png or something.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.storyden.org (see the browser console for more information).

[–] said 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly same error for me. I'm glad there are such indicators so I don't have to waste my time on such a crappy overcomplicated design.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

Could be something everyone is blocking in their browsers. I know I use arkenfox. No joy with LibreWolf or Waterfox. I did pull it up in Opera, and it worked ok. I didn't browse any further than the front page. I only use Opera for paying bills as Firefox, LibreWolf, and Waterfox are set up to block a lot of excess crap, and my utilities love their bullshit webpage candy.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also on cromite. Both disable webgl by default, iirc.

Not like a forum has a reasonable use case that requires webgl, tho.

[–] False@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Works fine in Firefox on Android