Maybe just make a fucking forum? Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place?
Steam Hardware
A place to discuss and support all Steam Hardware, including Steam Deck, Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and SteamOS in general.
As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title
The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Deck] - Steam Deck related.
[Machine] - Steam Machine related.
[Frame] - Steam Frame related.
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.
If your post is only relevant to one hardware device (Deck/Machine/Frame/etc) please specify which one as part of the title or by using a device flair.
These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.
Rules:
- Follow the rules of Sopuli
- Posts must be related to Steam Hardware or Steam OS in an obvious way.
- No piracy, there are other communities for that.
- Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
- This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
- Have fun.
It got popular because it's excellent for gaming communities. Not for code base discussion.
Agreed. Discord is a chatroom not a forum.
Because you can make a Discord server with a few clicks. It's super easy. I wish more people used things indexable by search engines too, but you really can't deny how incredibly easy Discord is from the side of the people wanting to set up something.
You can make a lemmy community in a few clicks if you don't want to run your own instance.
And everyone already has an account, they can just press a button to join the server and be interacting straight away.
Jesus why did discord ever get popular in the first place.
Because its more than a bunch of posts, its voice comms and thats more useful. So find a platform that does both and maybe people change, maybe. More likely we will have to wait for IPO and enshitification before that happens.
Because stupid people use it, and unfortunately stupid people are most.
STOP USING DISCORD
This is super cool. I hope it works really well, the difficulty of accessing troubleshooting info from discord is such a problem.
Wow, so now I don't have to bug them on Discord and just Google things? That's pretty useful.
Support threads, if they're ising what I think they are, already look a lot like traditional forum posts. Great idea to actually make it a forum

