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4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Even worse if there's a github page, but they've disabled issues and discussions.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Its awful, history isnt kept, requires account creation on a non FLOSS app. It sucks. Forums were better.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I use Discord with friends for a weekly online D&D game in what’s basically a glorified conference calls. It’s fine for that use-case, but it fucking sucks for trying to do anything organized or having on-topic conversations or looking up any sort of stored information. I kind of hate it when game companies have shit on there and you have to search/sort through hundreds of unconnected chat snippets to find answers to questions.

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[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Am I the odd one out for actually liking discord? Or is most of this hate specifically for using discord for FOSS projects? As a replacement for MSN Messenger/Skype/Ventrillo Discord is actually pretty great for hanging out with friends

the hate is because discord actively makes it harder to find and get support for anything. It's adding extra steps to something that doesnt need them.

I use discord to chat with my friends and weird people online, not to complain about the nonfunctional nature of software to people i dont know.

[–] technom@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Discord is an OK chat app. But it's TERRIBLE as a support forum. It's precisely the latter that everyone is complaining about.

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[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

For chatting with friends it's fine! The hate is when it's used for public documentation and communication, because it isn't public.

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[–] MinusPi@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh my fuck I'm so glad these characters died out. Dolan memes were the bane of my existence while they were a thing.

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] peak_dunning_krueger@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago (26 children)

The people in this thread are open source power users who don't get and don't want the features that discord offers. It's no surprise you'd rather have your forum back. I don't think that's how it's going to work.

Privacy is good and what discord does is bad. But don't lecture me on how convient and nice it is to use or run something like matrix, if this is your idea of a user onboarding experience:

https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/

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[–] grubders@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

discord is the best villain but also the worst platform ever

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me when Thunders (Lemmy client I contribute to) entire dev team is on matrix: happy noises

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Is this loss?

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