• BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
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    6 hours ago

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

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      2 hours ago

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

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        2 hours ago

        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.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

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      4 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.