Comment on FLOSS communities right now
Kedly@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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
It's a private silo with no public indexing by search. Makes it terrible for technical topics fine for a chat platform.
It's a bad hybrid of chat and forum. None of the advantages of rich forum posts and typically too may participants for it to be easy to follow. Noticeable if you are not in the main timezone as the others.
Discord has threads and topics, but these features are a bolted on afterthought instead of core functionality so it just doesn't work as well
Ah, so the hate is mostly for it being used for things that it wasnt really built for. I can get that
Exactly!
I think the thread(s) aren’t that hard to navigate or search in - assuming everything else has been set by admins properly (rarely the case). YMMV. Third-party ticketing/integration bots with major services are seamless, but or course depends on your use case.
Discord is an OK chat app. But it’s TERRIBLE as a support forum. It’s precisely the latter everyone is complaining about.
I also need to point out here that anything posted to discord is now their intellectual property by law. That’s quite a deal breaker and honestly should not work with any open source projects
I didn’t know that. That single reason alone is enough to completely exclude discord from open source projects.
For chatting with friends it’s fine! The hate is when it’s used for public documentation and communication, because it isn’t public.
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.
BuT itS NoT OpEnSoUrCE reeeeee
This.
(Hardcore) Lemmy: Everything has to be (F)OSS
Me: Even a media library like Plex?
Them: Maybe not everything
Hypocrisy…Go and finally install Jellyfin folks. Give those fine folks a 10€/$ donation.
Is that the ones who tell your coworkers what porn you enjoyed last night?
Of course. Open source clients on open source operating systems connecting to self-hosted servers on private infrastructure with open source software.
As soon as open source hardware is practically available I’m never using proprietary processors ever again, I don’t care if they’re “underpowered” by computational power - All backdoored CPU’s are underpowered by my standards to verified non-backdoored CPU’s.
Maybe not everything
Laughs in hardcore open source
No, you’re not, but the circle jerk here is definitely against discord.
my problem with it(apart from the fact that it’s not libre) is that the chats aren’t end to end encrypted
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Replacement for TS3, Skype, whatever = Good
1st party quick support channel = Good
Community maintenance = Good Documentation = Not good
Basically Github issues replacement = Bad
Knowledgebase = Bad