Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
asbestos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably our only chance to find solutions to problems with open source software that uses Discord as their forum
I spent nearly three hours today between discord and matrix trying to figure out how to get these two pieces of software to talk using a certain protocol.
Imagine if there were online indexable platforms where people could publish this information so it’s easily accessible rather than having to scour through message logs hoping to find the right keywords. Such a technology surely doesn’t exist already, right?
I hate discord.
I don’t hate Discord, I simply hate that so many projects and companies have unanimously decided to use it as the wrong tool for the wrong job.
It’s fine for its intended use case, which is bickering with my friends about video games and fiction, and spamming each other with .gifs and meme images.
Discord is genuinely a great tool for what I used to use Skype for. Talking to my friends, and sharing dumb memes with them in a groupchat format. Companies need to learn that using it as a forum, a Q&A service, a wiki or any other information sharing purpose, is simply fucking retarded.
Yeah, but then you have something like when people protest deleted their history on reddit which is fine as a protest tactic but leaves a hole where your specific question came up but now there’s nothing there.
you get it to work? i didnt have time to get it working in both directions. matrix to discord worked fine but not the other way.
I’m not entirely sure what you’re asking here. I do not use any bridge between the two, but rather searched in separate communities for my answer. Would’ve been lovely if I could just use a search engine to search indexed forums or so, but since for some reason chat clients have taken the place of forums that’s just not doable.
I’d like to move away from Discord but sadly a bunch of friends still use it.
You mean NNTP ?
Lol, I’ve read this headline and thought “thank fuck, probably the only option to have Discord’s content readable”, I like how universal this opinion is
boatswain@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Seriously. It’s beyond painful when some open source project only uses Discord for communication. You have to hope that you post your question at a time when the right people are online, and that there’s not a more interesting conversation going on, otherwise it just gets lost. Index that whole dataset.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Given some similar issues, why is it some projects still use IRC then?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
there’s a difference between using irc for livetime troubleshooting and not having a forum at all and directing everyone to your livechat discord. i’m sure some sicko out there has run an OSS project on only IRC, but their project likely got no traction because a history of problemsolving posts is important in open source. generally speaking, you need:
too many projects these days only have that last one in the form of discord
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Because IRC is awesome, always has been
boatswain@infosec.pub 2 months ago
That would be equally annoying. Probably a better signal to noise ratio on IRC though; Discord descends into memes almost instantly.
AugustWest@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For projects I am involved with all irc chats are archived and searchable. There is nothing private, no registration needed and searchable.
Quite a bit different.
Peffse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve always wanted to contribute to The Cutting Room Floor wiki but they hide registration behind a Discord server bot that will give the registration code.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’ve seen a few projects doing just that with www.answeroverflow.com and they have come up in my web searches. Not really a solution but at least a stopgap.