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Me while waiting for a passable alternative (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 62 points 9 months ago (5 children)

If you use Discord as a forum for your project/game/whatever, this is the perfect time to stop doing that. Seriously.

Just install Discourse, or a commercial product such as XenForo (they have a pay-once self-hosted option), or even phpBB.

We need project forums to be discoverable, easy to access, not tied to a commercial platform.

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  • [–] 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    Discord is shit as a forum anyway - it's a chat room.

    It was a lot easier to find answers or reply to questions on phpbb forums.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    Not an unpopular opinion, I know, but I will die on the hill of Discord being the worst possible service for anyone who thinks they want to offer support for their software.

    It's so comically bad for what SO MANY people use it, and is genuinely a point at which I'll just abandon the software and look for something that has an actual support forum.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I never understood the appeal of Discord or chat in general. Going all the way back to ICQ, I found it distracting. I'm guessing most people using it multitask, but I don't so I always just sat there staring at the program waiting for a reply.

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