▲ 1675 ▼ '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 return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 457 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 61 points 6 months ago (2 children) 🤮 Who are the morons that keep making these decisions? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ripcord@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago Several open source developers in this case permalink fedilink source parent [–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago Discord is just as inaccessible from the open internet as it’s always been, if not arguably worse so, although you’re right in giving Reddit no further credit in that department. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 41 points 6 months ago Several open source developers in this case permalink fedilink source parent
[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago Discord is just as inaccessible from the open internet as it’s always been, if not arguably worse so, although you’re right in giving Reddit no further credit in that department. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago Discord is just as inaccessible from the open internet as it’s always been, if not arguably worse so, although you’re right in giving Reddit no further credit in that department. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago Discord is just as inaccessible from the open internet as it’s always been, if not arguably worse so, although you’re right in giving Reddit no further credit in that department. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago Discord is just as inaccessible from the open internet as it’s always been, if not arguably worse so, although you’re right in giving Reddit no further credit in that department. permalink fedilink source parent