Know that feeling
Don’t worry, once discord succeeds in killing every forum ever, you won’t be able to find anything like this again!
Discord is a poor replacement for forums. It’s like hearing every conversation in a nightclub all at once. IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and AOL Chat never killed forums, and I doubt Discord will either.
I hope not. I don’t understand when people suggest discord as a replacement for forums or things like reddit. It’s not really the same thing at all.
And that’s to say nothing of it being pretty targeted towards gamers and gamer culture. I am a gamer and don’t mind it but it’s a barrier to adoption for people who aren’t at all into that.
I play video games. I don’t really like gamers or gamer culture very much at all.
I’m in the same boat. I at least sort of “understand” it if that makes sense? Like, it’s not my bag but I know about it and that makes it easier to ignore.
But like…my wife is not at all a gamer. She goes to forums or reddit to follow hobby interests she has. Having a bunch of cringey leetspeak and gamer bro stuff is going to be off-putting to those types of people, and maybe enough to prevent them from adopting the platform at all.
It certainly factored into our decision to use slack for our college friends group instead of discord.
Slack is also an easier interface and layout. Discord is pretty confusing the first time you open it. The UI is definitely discordant.
Well at least their search function is good…
Oh wait it’s complete shit
Slack too - just pay them $9 to access your own posts lol.
Slack kills me. A group of friends of mine from college use it to stayb in touch. Our instance has a dozen or so users, half of them mostly lurk to stay in the loop. For us active members it would definitely be worth paying 7.25/mo or whatever it is, but we don’t want to lock out the others who don’t really use it so often and they definitely wouldn’t pay for it (and some can’t really afford it).
I wish they had a tier below Pro for personal use (we aren’t a business) that gave full post history and limited everything else and was maybe not per user billing but instead usage based. It’s such a great, intuitive platform and works perfectly for our group of friends except that you can’t go back to look at anything.
All the content that was gathered on Reddit as well.
Reddit is definitely engaged in some fuckery and is likely going to paywall their site.
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-thanks, that actually worked!Nvm, fixed it.
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“Ah ok, thanks! That helped so much.” Reply made by deleted user. Fml.
I’ve been living in Denver for 10 years now and still hoping to one day run into DenverCoder9.
There’s a description field, could people please start putting a link to the original xkcd, i.e. https://xkcd.com/979/ in this case? It’s not that hard.
Without attribution you’re just doing copyright infringement (see also https://xkcd.com/license.html). And you’re hiding useful and nice information like the title text, the title, an the xkcd number, which you can use to get a transcription and an explanation on explainxkcd.
The worst is when you see a post below it that’s like “2022 and this still isn’t solved, anybody have a fix for this yet?!?”
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Wow thanks, this fixed the issue perfectly, and it was so easy for a beginner like me!
Fucking drives me nuts.
There’s going to be lots of those on Reddit with so many people deleting their past posts/comments.
TBH when I get this I usually question my request, am I asking the right thing? Is what I’m doing stupid or so bafflingly wrong that a simpler question might be answerable? Then I ask chatgpt and get the wrong answer…but at least it’s an answer
This is my issue with redditors deleting all their content from reddit. I agree with leaving because of the policy changes, but I think that adopting a scorched earth policy, mostly harms other users.
On some level, protest is about harming other people, at least mildly. Protests are frustrating. Protests are interrupting. Protested make it more difficult for people to do what they want.
This is by design. This is part of the point.
Protests that aren’t inconveniencing people are protests that can be safely ignored.
It’s all the better, though, when those inconveniences can be paired with a clear alternative for people to turn to to have their needs met.
The distinguishment needs to be made that inconveniencing people who cannot make the needed change makes the entire protest immediately irrelevant.
For example, protesting in the middle of a highway does not inconvenience anyone that has the power to make a change. Those politicians are far away from the protest and don’t care because it doesn’t effect them or their pocketbook.
For Reddit, making it inconvenient for other users directly effects Reddit. Less and less user traffic is a major inconvenience for a tech company attempting to IPO. And they have the power to change. However, at this point the damage is beyond rolling back, I think.
I think many were just that disgusted still - but I do agree. Why I left mine if posted under technical subs - otherwise I removed mine by overwriting.
This gets funnier the further away from 2003 we get
