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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hosting documentation on Discord is like hosting it on IRC.

While a useful tool in its own right, it's entirely the wrong choice for this job.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I have a strong suspicion that 90% of that shit is not being backed up. If a server gets deleted for whatever reason, all the documentation is extra gone with a side of never coming back.

No wayback machine, no wget, no open source. Add in server moderators can go rogue or get hacked at any given time. Recipe for catastrophic shitshows

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Discord provides no way to backup and restore a server. There are freemium third party products and some rudimentary open source tools that do so, but yeah, it’s wild how much information about open source software (this also applies to the game development community) is just in a proprietary walled garden with a single point of failure.