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'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives (www.techradar.com)
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[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 305 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Please, pretty please, be the spark that will stop OSS projects from hosting their "support forums" on Discord.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

IRC still supports most of the FOSS core.

More modern alternatives include Jitsi, Matrix and Simplex. Mumble also works well for voice.

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 21 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's too bad the open source community couldn't find some programmers to help them make an alternative.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 39 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. Forums fill the role pretty well, I don't understand why devs would use Discord in the first place.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 points 46 minutes ago

Fluxer apparently has that on their roadmap. https://blog.fluxer.app/roadmap-2026/

As part of #3, I'd also like to add the ability to publish forums to the open web. That way, people can discover, archive, and access discussions without logging in.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 7 points 3 hours ago

Hear hear!

Matrix is an ok alternative to Discord for what Discord does.

Support forums are not an appropriate use of Discord, or of Matrix. Discourse is pretty great open source forum software. NodeBB forums even added ActivityPub support! I never particularly like when companies use Reddit as a primary communication method, and for the same reason I'd rather they didn't use Lemmy or Piefed, but all of these are vastly better options than Discord, Matrix, or other un-indexable private chats.

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Discord took the place of IRC. Chatlogs for IRC were rarely indexed by most channel admins until after about 2010 when projects like freenode hosted all the open source projects for the whole web.

It was purchased by some right wing billionaire and now it is no longer.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

As long as the alternative is not another chat app that is not indexable by search engines. F

For me this is the biggest probem about Discord and Discord alternatives why not just use Lemmy what's the problem with Lemmy?

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 100 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I wish it was only limited to support forums. I've even seen a Linux kernel driver where the Issues sections was closed and you should go to Discord instead. No thanks.

[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

🤮

Who are the morons that keep making these decisions?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago

Several open source developers in this case

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 67 points 8 hours ago

It's horrible. We already had that stuff figured out. Wiki pages and forums to make information accessible even after 20 minutes have passed. Fuck that development and everyone that was/is pushing for that.

[–] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 10 points 7 hours ago

I deployed several docker containers using an image from this one guy. Later when I needed help with an image I realized the support is provided exclusively through a Discord server. To nobody's surprise the guy is an asshole who shouldn't interact with users.