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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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (17 children)

Am I the odd one out for actually liking discord? Or is most of this hate specifically for using discord for FOSS projects? As a replacement for MSN Messenger/Skype/Ventrillo Discord is actually pretty great for hanging out with friends

[–] technom 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Discord is an OK chat app. But it's TERRIBLE as a support forum. It's precisely the latter that everyone is complaining about.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

the hate is because discord actively makes it harder to find and get support for anything. It's adding extra steps to something that doesnt need them.

I use discord to chat with my friends and weird people online, not to complain about the nonfunctional nature of software to people i dont know.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

For chatting with friends it's fine! The hate is when it's used for public documentation and communication, because it isn't public.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy communities with discord channels are really quite something.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Even worse if there's a github page, but they've disabled issues and discussions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Oh my fuck I'm so glad these characters died out. Dolan memes were the bane of my existence while they were a thing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I use Discord with friends for a weekly online D&D game in what’s basically a glorified conference calls. It’s fine for that use-case, but it fucking sucks for trying to do anything organized or having on-topic conversations or looking up any sort of stored information. I kind of hate it when game companies have shit on there and you have to search/sort through hundreds of unconnected chat snippets to find answers to questions.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Its awful, history isnt kept, requires account creation on a non FLOSS app. It sucks. Forums were better.

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