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FLOSS communities right now (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 9 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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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 31 points 9 months 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/

[-] sanguine_artichoke@midwest.social 37 points 9 months ago

It’s confusing to me why people think discord is a good replacement for forums. It’s not even the same paradigm - it’s a chat program. Not being indexed by search engines is a major drawback as well.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Because you can make a Discord server in like one click basically. That's it. Also they have forum channels now on so-called community servers.

Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying Discord is better. I still hate how often it is used for things it shouldn't be and I hate that it isn't indexed by search engines. I'm just explaining.

[-] pkill@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

IT'S NOT A SERVER FFS

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

I feel you. I'm just using the terminology they do.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Searching shit is pretty damn important and Discord isn't optimal, definitely. But somehow it's better at searching than Lemmy! Now how does that happen?

[-] mac@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lemmy is indexed so can be found on search engines while discord cant

For internal search without using a search engine discord has had way more devs, time and money thrown at it. Still would say its barely better than lemmy (just is cause of the time filters)