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FLOSS communities right now (i.imgflip.com)
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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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[–] 74 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

The children do not yet know how much they yearn for the mines of listservs.

A new, novel solution to an already-solved problem that is worse in pretty much every way. But at least it is anathema to retention of institutional knowledge.

In short: just do a fucking PHPBB forum, it's better than this shit.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In short: just do a fucking PHPBB forum, it’s better than this shit.

    Or a wiki or IRC or Matrix or Lemmy or Mastodon, etc. There's so many FOSS platforms for this kind of thing to choose from. How someone looks at all those options and then chooses Discord is beyond me.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    i feel everyone has just forgotten about gitter? literally its entire schtick is being the communications platform for github and gitlab, and now it's even been acquired by the matrix team!

    Like surely that's the obvious place to go?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago*

    Please, not phpBB. Whatever the merits of PHP as a language are now, phpBB came from a time when it was exhibit #1 of why the language was terrible.

    Adding a community on a Lemmy instance is fine. Far less admin work on your part, too. Encourage your users to donate to the people who do run the instance.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    isn't discourse (important to note that's a completely different thing from discord) just a modern and much nicer version of phpbb?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's real-time chat. That's fundamentally different, philosophically, from the way a forum/wiki works.

    You can cludge forum-like features into it with stickies and bots and yada yada yada... or you could just use a platform that is designed from the ground up to be a permanent knowledge store instead of extended, glorified AOL chatrooms.

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