Can we just stop using Discord and go back to using forum sites?
I realize it's (comparatively) super easy to set up, but y'all realize it's just going to bite us all in the ass as soon as someone at Discord decides they need to turn up the profit ratio?
It's a ticking time bomb. The whole thing is going to follow the enshittification process, and anything of value on there is going to be lost/sold/destroyed.
@malcircuit If you want real-time chat: IRC, matrix, Discourse. If you want a forum: Discourse. Even as a confirmed forum-hater from the USENET days I like Discourse. But most crucially these are all things you can run on your own server with free software..
One is, i think modern people can non longer conviently use a forum because they have non longer PCs and Laptops, experiencing their whole communication to be something scrolling through a tiny phone screen
The other is, i use a lot of niche forums, and i miss myself a chat option in them. This might be one major thing we fail to do, to integrate XMPP or Matrix as an "quick message" button to a Forum and give every user automatically an account there
trying to learn a game that's got a lot of intricate systems & needs days of setup. Spend time RTFM & watching a youtube series from a guy who only videos that game. reach out to the community on their discord server for a couple of very specific questions "they're in my [tens of hours of] videos somewhere" guess I need to rewatch & take notes 'cos it's all unscripted
@malcircuit I tried hosting a forum once and despite my best efforts it got so overrun with spam that the web host called me to ask me what the heck was going on.
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