pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.



GoopySpaceShark
@GoopySpaceShark

I hate that Discord is adding forums. You may be asking "why? they're good for organisation and present a more permanent and easily searchable format, aren't they?", to which I respond "no". We had forums before Discord and they're still far superior just for the fact that Google can index them. If a forum doesn't want a particular page indexed, they can just add the 'noindex' robots header.

Discord is just a bloated minibrowser built on top of far too many frameworks that exists to silo off communication from the internet at large and I hate it. Hate hate hate. Stop making Discord servers for technical support. Stop requiring I join yet another server just to download your mods. Do you know why people didn't do this with TeamSpeak or Skype? Because it's a terrible fucking idea and makes absolutely zero sense. Just use forums.


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in reply to @GoopySpaceShark's post:

I have tried to find solutions for game stuff, and TTRPG things and then find that I have to go to a Discord, and I get angry. I hate Discord's lack of organization, I hate that it's not findable via a search engine, I hate that if you even ask a question, because the bad search in the server didn't yield anything useful, you get angry responses and told to search... It sucks!

The initial form of Discord, chat combined with voice, was really great, an easier to use replacement for both the dying-at-the-time AIM and the required-entering-port-numbers Teamspeak/Mumble/Ventrilo. The feature bloat and excessive use as sole "community" center hasn't been so great.