person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:

  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, "wow a cool software. let's check out the community"
  2. screenshot with the text

    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

  3. hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
  4. person looking behind with the text "nevermind".
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[+] 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think discord is primarily just useful for voice chat, yes.

    But:

    It's a closed ecosystem that locks what would otherwise be searchable knowledge on the web, with an unsearchable, proprietary lockdown of that information.

    Yeah, no. Proprietary, sure, but you can say that about almost communication mechanism that's not a website with an API. It's not like people would otherwise be posting these things somewhere else if discord didn't exist. If it wasn't discord it'd be slack or something. Discord is an entirely different medium and complaining that it isn't a forum is just not a legitimate argument. They're entirely different things.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    They are entirely different things, but people are using it where they should be using a forum or similar solution due to its easy of use and popularity culture wise.

    That doesn't negate the reason why it's hated.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I think the problem here really is that people are using discord to fill a niche that they wouldn't otherwise occupy if other options were as simple "make a server" (yes they aren't actual servers but that's not the point).

    I will concede that it's still weird to see any FOSS communities on there.

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