Have you considered that the person you consider smart is focusing all their brain power on their projects and they don’t have time to set up and maintain a website? That’s what discord is for, an easy, quick and dirty community aggregate
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I often revere the people who can do smart shit.
I really shouldn’t. Using discord is dumb. Using discord for a switch emulator, while Nintendos lawyers are waking around with their cocks out is stupid.
yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ProfessorNeurus@programming.dev 2 months ago
While there’s truth in your words, there are alternatives that require little effort. Even a IRC channel would have been better.
Discord is not only a terrible bad application, it’s the equivalent of writing posts on medium. If and when they decide to gatekeep your content, there’s nothing you can do.
Link@rentadrunk.org 2 months ago
Or matrix which is far more modern and user friendly than IRC.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Always easy to say this in hindsight.
IRC is considered unsafe too to a certain degree with pirating folks.
Also let me emphasize this: for every discord server shut down like this, there are 100+ servers with almost the same purpose that still exist and will continue to for at least the next 3y.
If you are doing development as a hobby, you just don’t have the time to use a different system, get used to that system, and then critically convince everyone else to go there too. Just look at Lemmy, I want it to be great as well but we have to accept that a few tiny steps more in the day to say usability of a system can be the difference between Twitter and Mastodon. And before ppl are saying “well Twitter was there longer”, sure but that doesn’t mean we cannot see the trend for growth that does or doesn’t exist.
9bananas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Also let me emphasize this: for every discord server shut down like this, there are 100+ servers with almost the same purpose that still exist and will continue to for at least the next 3y.
you completely missed the point here:
the issue that those aren’t around NOW, the issue is that they WILL inevitably disappear eventually and every shred of knowledge platformed there will be irretrievably lost to the void.
discord is a black hole for information:
it sucks information in and deletes it from existence.
that’s why it’s bad.
the time frame doesn’t really matter here.
4am@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That’s not what discord is for if you are doing anything where a big corporation wants to muscle you around.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The lack of intelligence is thinking you can build a grey zone project in discord. It’s like saying you want to build a house but don’t want to pour a foundation. Like, good for you, focus on windows and paint, but you’re not gonna get anywhere.
Easy quick and dirty are not acceptable when you are trying to build emulation software based on the products of a very litigious international corporation
avater@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s what discord is for, an easy, quick and dirty community aggregate
and thats also the reason why this project is now gone… also you are pretty much “paying” with all you information and since they started heavily monetizing Discord you will pay even more as they soon will start to sell you conveniences or essential features.
Damage@feddit.it 2 months ago
Creating a channel on freenode takes seconds
yokonzo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I will say this, if you are a Lemmy user, sure probably.
But I did a simple websearch for “how to set up a freenode server.” The very first 3 things I saw (what fits on the screen) were a page full of syntax, a 13 minute YouTube video, and a page where the first thing that’s written is literally “Internet Relay Chat is a difficult thing to get used to, especially for people who were born into this world of full graphical interfaces and messaging web apps that handle user interaction seamlessly.”
For the average user, creating a channel does not “take seconds” if you need proof, discord. Its popular because it is so easy to use and the numbers back that up
Damage@feddit.it 2 months ago
Uhm, freenode already exists, you don’t have to set up another server just to create a channel. There are clients that are embeddable into webpages as well, so joining an existing channel could be as simple as opening a page for a new user.
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not for a minute, no.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Huh, I thought it was just a chat room to get to know people.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is it wrong to seek for online friends in discord?
doublejay1999@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you just need to know what you are getting into.
It’s a private company, it’s closed to sourced, they capture and monetise your data.
For people who value transparency and privacy, there are better options. This emulator project, should have known better than to use is.
aaalll of that being said, it’s very popular and if you are not concerned by any of the points raised in this who threads, it’s a good place to meet people to chat about Warcraft or whatever your thing is.
Just be aware that any thing your write, effectively belongs to them forever.
someacnt_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah, tbh I am only using it because lots of people do not want to get off discord.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I’ve said this recently, but intelligence is domain specific. People just being generally “smart” is not a thing people should really care about.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yep, I’ve known specialists that are extremely good at their job but when you hear them talk about other stuff you sometimes wonder how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning.
infinitepcg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s not a matter of intelligence, these people just have different priorities.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
If their priority is to make a nintendo emulator, they have to think about keeping their lines of communication secure against corporate legal threats, because those lines of communication are basically what software development is.
infinitepcg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, but they also need to be on a platform that people actually use. I agree that there are lots of reasons against Discord, but my point is, they didn’t choose Discord because of a lack of intelligence.