Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wish it was only limited to support forums. I’ve seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.

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  • justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s horrible. We already had that stuff figured out. Wiki pages and forums to make information accessible even after 20 minutes have passed. Fuck that development and everyone that was/is pushing for that.

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  • zensanto@ttrpg.network ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    🤮

    Who are the morons that keep making these decisions?

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    • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s people that don’t want to have to maintain things, which I understand. It’s trivial these days to host a forum with a cloud provider, or have a github, but Discord is one click. It’s not the ideal tool, but one click, no payment, and you have a place everyone can talk to each other.

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    • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Several open source developers in this case

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• stressballs@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s too bad the open source community couldn’t find some programmers to help them make an alternative.

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  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. Forums fill the role pretty well, I don’t understand why devs would use Discord in the first place.

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    • pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. F

      For me this is the biggest probem about Discord and Discord alternatives why not just use Lemmy what’s the problem with Lemmy?

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    • stressballs@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Discord took the place of IRC. Chatlogs for IRC were rarely indexed by most channel admins until after about 2010 when projects like freenode hosted all the open source projects for the whole web.

      It was purchased by some right wing billionaire and now it is no longer.

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    • other_cat@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

      As part of #3, I’d also like to add the ability to publish forums to the open web. That way, people can discover, archive, and access discussions without logging in.

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      • itsmistermoon@piefed.social ⁨29⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

        I saw earlier that Zulip already has that option, but I still would much prefer a regular old forum.

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• AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I deployed several docker containers using an image from this one guy. Later when I needed help with an image I realized the support is provided exclusively through a Discord server. To nobody’s surprise the guy is an asshole who shouldn’t interact with users.

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• TheDingNoiseInToolSongs@piefed.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, thank you.

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• redsand@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  IRC still supports most of the FOSS core.

  More modern alternatives include Jitsi, Matrix and Simplex. Mumble also works well for voice.

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