• Venia Silente@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    I get that people want a “simple way to chat” and Discord does that well, I guess. I mean, everyone’s talking about the forum aspect but what’s the alternative for chat? Mumble?

    Just, please, don’t hide documentation in the Discord. A neocities page costs literally $0. Please. Think of the poor SEO consultants!

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      8 months ago

      I find that some Matrix clients make it easy to build and interact with a community. Even Element has a lot of Discord’s core features, it just lacks the streaming and some of the gaming-related stuff. Otherwise, Matrix rooms are sufficient for building an “easy to chat” community.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah I’m indifferent to discord as a platform. It’ll eventually be enshitified and people will move on.

      The bummer is that it’s enabling people to be poor at documentation in a whole new way.

      That said, if Discord went away tomorrow most software projects would still have garbage documentation, because most software projects are ephemeral at BEST.