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  • Obinice
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    11 year ago

    Why 👏 is 👏 every 👏 word 👏 padded 👏 by 👏 emoticons 👏 ?

  • @S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 year ago

    Even beyond the point of “using discord”. Nintendo is reaching harassment levels of assholism. Are they doing even worse that with Gaty Bowser?

  • Carighan Maconar
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    01 year ago

    What I hate most about this is how they now moved to Rocket Chat.

    Come on people. Use a forum. Get the message, finally. Do it!

    • @bfg9k@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      It’s so goddamn easy to set up a basic forum site for a few bucks a month, and it’s not like there aren’t hundreds of options for file sharing as well.

      The Xbox and PSP modding forums were where I used to hang out before Reddit, a well-designed and run forum is so much better than trying to basically make a website out of a chat room.

    • @Crafter72@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure most of people who mainly use discord as their main social apps probably never touched forum-based internet.

      Hosting your own forum is also better as you (the owner of the site) can still retrieve the msgs as long as you still have the access to the host server (so you can back them up in case shutting down, then going to resurfacing later).

      Not to mention using discord is already risking yourself because of their shitty policy.

      • @someacnt_@lemmy.world
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        01 year ago

        I make lots of use of discord. That does not mean I prefer it to forum style for communication - discord just suits well for one-off joke-y talk

        • @Crafter72@lemmy.world
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          01 year ago

          Maybe in my message seems to focus solely on discord for putting the blame… The problem nowadays is that mostly these “devs” share/upload/host their releases in Discord which means you do use Discord’s CDN to host their files. Another common complaint of these practices is that you need to join their server in order to just download relevant files which makes it infuriating if you stumbles across these practices often. For example I joined 8 different discord servers just to download a software/binary/release, why can’t just put the release on something like Mediafire, Google Drive, Megaupload or perhaps sourceforge.

          I do understand Discord is communication platform but most of time some people are too lazy to manage stuff so what happen is that everything is hosted in single place as such Discord.

          • @someacnt_@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            Wait, wtf. People literally post helpful resources and artifacts on discord, and nowhere else? Huh. Just as I thought it is impossible to go lower

            • @Crafter72@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              Internet is really wide and open if you know direction :)

              Even libgen (Library Genesis) still provide IRC as one of option to download ebook from their catalog.

              FMHY and Internet Archive is a good entry point if you want to search anything.

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      They need to be using an encrypted platform hosted in a country out of reach of Nintendo

    • @daltotron@lemmy.world
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      11 year ago

      Still not the point of a live-chat application. The use case is not the same as a forum. You want an archive where everything is well-organized and most questions have already been answered. Discord and other live chat services are more like live tech support, to fill the gap between the raw technical documentation found in GitHub, and the just getting started guide or FAQ, which are usually lightweight enough that they could be posted anywhere. Discord doesn’t exist to be an archive that holds all the knowledge, discord exists so that when you open an app, you can go in, ask a couple questions, and hopefully someone will get to you in a couple minutes, at most, rather than in a couple days.

    • @Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works
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      11 year ago

      And it’s a million times better for people trying to troubleshoot.

      1 forum post can solve many problems, rather than having to have each person ask in a support chat that’s not searchable.

      • @IronKrill@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Technically Discord is trying to solve this with their threads feature, but I’ve found either the server owners don’t force it or the users don’t use it. Either way, it sucks.