Lol “once Duscord enshittifies”. Bro… It happened years ago.
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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Once Discord enshittifies, lazy devs won’t be able to say “follow our Discord for updates!” anymore.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It was never good from the start, as a voice chat program, it’s miles behind ts3 and mumble, never liked discord, isn’t that what gamer pedo’'s use to get in contact with younger kids anyway?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Nah, it was pretty good when I used it some years back. I stopped using it before all of the nonsense people are complaining about, so at least for me I have a pretty positive perception. I even pushed to use it at work, which was awesome for productivity until my boss (the CEO) switched us to Slack, which was still decent, but a little crappier than Discord at the time.
I don’t know how it is currently because I actively avoid it for a variety of reasons, but it was pretty good at the time.
gamer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Idk why you’re being downvoted since everything you said was right.
I think it just got popular because younger gamers don’t know how to use computers, and Discord was easier to use than everything else. The client also looks much nicer than mumble, and overall has better on boarding. The mumble homepage for example looks like a developer site.
ihatefascist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I got downvoted because 90% uses discord and I said only pedo’s use it to groom children ( which tbf is a bold statement)
desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You’ll be surprised but a lot of young and not so young people find discord too difficult to use, they can’t wrap their heads behind the server concept
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
lol what, Discord enshittified years ago.
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hopefully they move to element
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Hopefully they just post updates on the platforms they sell their games on. I shouldn’t need to sign up for anything else.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anyone remember websites and RSS? Those were the days.
Why does everything have to get shovelled into someone’s walled garden…
(Speaking about updates and notifications here, not discussions.)
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
It’s the walled garden thing that gets me. At some point, people got complacent. I’m 100% confident that there is an entire swath of the population which has never considered that Discord is a corporate entity with corpoate interests. We made open standards for a reason.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Matrix?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’m guessing so, since Element is perhaps the most popular Matrix client. There are others though.
doorknob88@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m a lazy dev and want to get ahead of this, where should I post my updates?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Back in ye olden days you’d have your own website, a blog, or maybe a forum. It was indexable on Google and anyone could see and interact with your updates. If not for that there’s always steam.
Gronk@aussie.zone 2 months ago
Pfft we got rid of that yonks ago, now you just have to have an AI rewrite your documentation as a million shitty tutorials that are all search-engine optimised on different websites and hope the user finds one semi-legible.
It’s a piece of piss, literally.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
On whatever platform(s) you sell your games. The key is not expecting someone to sign up for a different service for your updates.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Or just have an open forum/place where you don’t need an account to get into some walled off bullshit.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Sure. But the costs for implementing such a thing are certainly above simply using the tools on the platform on which the dev has decided to release their work. If they disagree, don’t release it there.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Github (and alternatives), Fediverse, Reddit, Matrix
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Do not use Reddit, it’s too ban happy
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
So what if you get banned? The person responsible should (IMO) create a dedicated account for that anyway.
I’d post as long as possible and if banned, I’d create an appropiate information on any other communication channel.
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Email group
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Who indexes that?
Can I view it on archive.org?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There are plenty of mailing lists with web-based archives, like lkml for the Linux kernel. Find a mailing list host you like and go to town.
merde@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
rss?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
…bluesky?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
RSS