• xvertigox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      Yup, having to join each server to access information means we (I presume) won’t be able to archive it via ArchiveTeam Warrior.

    • Marvie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      Is there no open alternative to it? Like old school forums but with a more modern ui and voice chats, and ideally indexed from the wider web. It could be an interesting addition to the fedi verse

  • bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    39·
    13 days ago

    I just want an api documentation, please 😫

    swagger is fine too if you don’t got anything else. please anything but the discord docs

  • zephiriz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    13 days ago

    I joined a discord of a very popular app recently. I do not know why devs like this in any way. If I was them I’d burn it down after the first day. The only thing in the discord is people posting the same few problems over and over and over. It so bad they not only have one bot but 3 that respond with it looks. Like your questing has been asked before please look here… With likes to people asking the same question but with no answer because its some AI trying to help. Even when you try to help someone and reply back with a correct answer you get spammed by these 3 bots. I had to block the 3 bots before I could do anything pertaining to conversation with someone. Why do we live like this…

    A well documented FAQ on a forum would be so much more helpful than this discord garbage. I am someone who does read the fucking manual. But when your manual is a link to discord you deserve to be spamed with the same question 10000’ed times.

  • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
    27·
    13 days ago

    Going through this right now, when a system update broke the game I was playing and the only support channel for my distro is Discord (so far, no one has replied to me on discord 🙁)

      • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        Everyone told me that Arch was hard so I avoided it for years. They were wrong, the wiki makes Arch a lot easier than most other popular distros. It’s so comprehensive! Bless those contributors. No wading through bulletin board archeology, decaying reddit threads, or half-relevant stack exchange questions.

        • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
          8·
          13 days ago

          I mean, most of the time, the Arch Wiki is just as useful on other distros, too…

          • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
            7·
            13 days ago

            It really is! I’ve used it to troubleshoot Debian issues too! The Arch wiki enriches the entire Linux community.

        • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          The only people who say arch is hard or breaks randomly haven’t fucking used it in ten years.

          It breaks less then Ubuntu and has easier documentation that’s more up to date. And an actual community EVERYWHERE to ask questions to.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    13 days ago

    Unless it is something that I really need, and I can’t find an alternative for, the phrase “join our discord for support and updates” is a sure sign that I will not, in fact, be using that product.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 days ago

    My favorite is when you’re interested in downloading a mod or fan game and the only place it exists is as a link to a google drive on discord.

    Holy shit, learn how to use technology please.

    • shiroininja@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      I think it’s because if it’s on a site, it’s going to get taken down quick, especially if it’s even adjacent to Nintendo. Hosting rom hacks, fan games, etc on their own sites is stupid AF. It’s how all the other idiots keep getting in trouble.

      Goes double for roms in general. Large torrents are 1000x better than rom sites.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    13 days ago

    I agree that Discord sucks for support, but in defense of companies and projects that use it (like my own), it’s free and it works.

    It would be awesome to have some alternative, built on open source software, provided freely to all projects and companies, that a majority of users are willing to join, but that just doesn’t exist. Not at the scale that it’s going to see widespread adoption any time soon.

    I will have a party the day it happens though, because even though I use Discord to provide support for two of my projects, I hate it. I’m just not willing to throw around more hosting resources and dedicate more time to run a support forum myself that 90% of my users wouldn’t be willing to sign up for anyway.

    • zephiriz@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      13 days ago

      Maybe I’m a minority and if it works for you all the power to you. Though I would almost prefer a forum site. Bring back the old days of some forum hosted on a random website. Not some walled garden like Facebook or reddit or discord. I think bb board or something like that is still around or somewhere thing like it. Drop in forum templet for a web site. I don’t think it would really be that much bandwidth to host something like that.

      Anyway I miss the days of signing up for random forums on the internet.

      Edit: https://www.phpbb.com/

      • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        12 days ago

        Yeah, and I use those too, but they’re not good for ad-hoc discussions.