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Discord to Require ID or Face Scan Next Month for Full Access (discord.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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    • Beginning with a phased global rollout to new and existing users in early March, users may be required to engage in an age-verification process to change certain settings or access sensitive content. This includes age-restricted channels, servers, or commands and select message requests.

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    [–] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Putting valuable help, trouble solving and FAQ stuff into a discord is … annoying. You cant find it again. So it will only help the original poster

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    We do also maintain docs. I put a lot of effort into the Setup ones but got burnt-out before really getting into the other ones (which need a lot of work). And for actual bugs, we use GitHub.

    Discord's search functionality is reasonably robust, and as long as you're already there, you can usually find old conversations about the problem you're having. The biggest problem is that it's gated off from the wider Internet, which is shitty.

    I think what we all like about it over forums for providing support is that it's closer to real-time communication, it's more flexible (conversations can flow in and out of each other instead of being permanently stuck in one subject-specific thread), and it's more casual.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Maybe they've changed something since I last tried getting help via Discord, but I found the search feature extremely lacking. I never have trouble finding someone else with my same question/problem, but there's no means of viewing replies to the message in question, or even whether anyone replied at all. One is required to manually browse potential hours or days of messages in the hope of following a conversation chain that might not even exist. This is made even worse by the fact that replies to a message aren't necessarily registered as replies because they're just subsequent chat messages.

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