The developer team at Discord released a new engineering blog post yesterday (December 8th) detailing lots of fixes, along with some Linux improvements.
The entire internet would be a whole lot better if the kind of information and help people currently turn to discord for was still primarily done on public web forums like it was from practically the dawn of the internet up until discord and other corporate trash just all of a sudden be came “essential” for everyone. Discord is actively harming our ability to archive and share data and they are profiting massively from it, it is objectively bad for the internet and bad for open source.
I don’t disagree. The way I use discord and they way it works best is for small communities, like my guild where we can use it as a cross-game communication.
It really does suck for things like reference information and asking questions. Not only because it isn’t publicly available, but just because finding that information within the platform itself is difficult.
I find it very frustrating that Nobara Linux uses Discord for support. I’m sure I could have used an answer that someone else asked previously, that is really difficult to find.
The entire internet would be a whole lot better if the kind of information and help people currently turn to discord for was still primarily done on public web forums like it was from practically the dawn of the internet up until discord and other corporate trash just all of a sudden be came “essential” for everyone. Discord is actively harming our ability to archive and share data and they are profiting massively from it, it is objectively bad for the internet and bad for open source.
I don’t disagree. The way I use discord and they way it works best is for small communities, like my guild where we can use it as a cross-game communication.
It really does suck for things like reference information and asking questions. Not only because it isn’t publicly available, but just because finding that information within the platform itself is difficult.
I find it very frustrating that Nobara Linux uses Discord for support. I’m sure I could have used an answer that someone else asked previously, that is really difficult to find.