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'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.
conceptual midwife.
https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut
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and I can tell you this is the most horrifying portent of a nascent future I've ever seen.
it's like seeing that table at the top of github wikis showing what distros have the software at what version, and the only one with an up-to-date copy is Slackware
"Oh where's the support for this program... huh... google has nothing, let me check their website agai... a Discord... greeeeeaaaaaat..."
As Trysdyn put it:
95% of the people who show up in your Discord instance will not be looking to join a community and contribute. They want to open a webpage, ctrl-F some words, and get an answer. Your chat is now that web page and everyone in it is now their answer machine. They will ask, wherever they want, without reading the rules. They will either get an answer or not. They will leave.
That will be your entire Discord existence: an effective verbose log of every ctrl-F your users would have done in an FAQ
"but not everyone knows how to set up a wiki!!!!!"
If some random tweens making a fandom.wiki for generic mascot horror game #40469 can figure it out, I'm sure someone on a team that's making a whole-ass project could figure it out. It's fine. Literally just anything but discord as the sole source of it.
How to make your thing utterly irrelevant in one easy step!
Can we start name and shaming this?
this post is like a month old and it seems to be doing the rounds again, so i don't actually perfectly remember what this was. i think it was a videogame randomizer tracker program called EmoTracker, but looking at their site now, it seems they have a normal download button.
like give me a shit plaintext html page running on someone's toaster and it'll be fine
but no, you gotta complicate things and live with the risk of losing ALL YOUR INFORMATION when one of the mods inevitably gets hacked
