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4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[-] peak_dunning_krueger@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

The people in this thread are open source power users who don't get and don't want the features that discord offers. It's no surprise you'd rather have your forum back. I don't think that's how it's going to work.

Privacy is good and what discord does is bad. But don't lecture me on how convient and nice it is to use or run something like matrix, if this is your idea of a user onboarding experience:

https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/

[-] technom@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We don't ask for forums because we don't want features of Discord. We ask for forums because we want features that Discord does not offer:

Ability to search the discussions from a web search engine
Proper segregation of threads - a question followed by related replies (similar to github discussions, issues and PRs)
Ability to back up the discussion history, so that it doesn't disappear if the server goes down.
Ability to operate unimpeded if the silo operator decides to monetize the information by holding it hostage.

Note: Privacy is not what we need here. We need the solutions to open source problems to be public - especially, searchability.

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