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In which folks once again don’t learn the same lesson as the last few times (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts

Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”

Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?

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[–] mii@awful.systems 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Kinda off-topic, but I legitimately don’t understand why people use Discord as a discussion platform. It’s fine as a voice chat tool, but why on earth would you want your community posts on there?

It’s not indexable and therefore not searchable by non-members; the content is on a remote server and they reserve the right to delete it any point; it’s a nightmare to backup; and the client itself is a fucking slap in the face in terms of accessibility. They only recently introduced colorblind-friendly modes, and they actually removed the option to choose a dyslexia-friendly font, while their standard font is fucking atrocious.

There’s really absolutely no reason why you would ever use a service like Discord over a discussion forum, and yet people do that more and more and I find it completely baffling.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Kinda off-topic, but I legitimately don’t understand why people use Discord as a discussion platform. It’s fine as a voice chat tool, but why on earth would you want your community posts on there?

Because people already have it installed. And most of the other gaming chat tools suck (Revolt isn't bad, but, you cannot use that as a content creator at the same time as discord, as discord for some weird reason recognizes that as the game Re-Volt, a 1999 game (so streaming etc via discord fails) and oddly doesn't seem to want to update this (I'm not saying it is intentional behaviour of making life harder for the competition, but it is making it intentionally harder for the competition).

And for the rest, it just is easier, and maintaining both a discord, a forum a reddit, a wiki etc etc is a fulltime task.