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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 172 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

I wish it was only limited to support forums. I've even seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.

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  • [–] 128 points 6 months ago

    It's horrible. We already had that stuff figured out. Wiki pages and forums to make information accessible even after 20 minutes have passed. Fuck that development and everyone that was/is pushing for that.

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  • [–] 61 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    🤮

    Who are the morons that keep making these decisions?

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    It's people that don't want to have to maintain things, which I understand. It's trivial these days to host a forum with a cloud provider, or have a github, but Discord is one click. It's not the ideal tool, but one click, no payment, and you have a place everyone can talk to each other.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    I guess, but even without talking about forums, even a subreddit would at least be publicly accessible and searchable. Using discord is effortless but antagonistic, at least a subresdit would be both effortless and in the service of the public.

    Sure, I'd prefer an open source self hosted platform, but I'm hard pressed to find anything worse than discord

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Sure, except that Discord was accessible when these were set up. There is nothing stopping Reddit from doing the exact same thing next year.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    This is my biggest pet peeve of OSS projects. Someone writes some code and that is where it ends for them. The rest of the infrastructure is so free and so easy that there is no need for dedication to the project.

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