wedgemccloud:

catboy–slim:

Now In Forum Flavor:

Discord Is A Black Hole For Information There are a wide variety of open source projects especially in the game dev community that use Discord as their end all be all for communication and to disseminate information. The problem with this is that 99% of the conversations that take place in Discord are missed. So many solutions to so many problems are just swept away in a never ending cascade of chat messages which remain undocumented elsewhere. Joining Discord servers is god damn nightmare, for whatever reason server admins just love to split the community across what feels like hundreds of unnecessary channels no one will ever use or look at. Explaining your problem in the help channel is ignored. Discord was great when it came, it really saved those of us who couldn't afford a VOIP server from Skype. Now, people have replaced their ENTIRE FORUM with it, and their forum where information is easily consumed is practically abandoned.

*slams desk*

FUCKING BRING BACK FORUMS. THEY RUN ON BASIC WEB SERVERS. IT JUST NEEDS PHP/MYSQL. THEY STILL EXIST. THEY DEPLOY OUT OF THE BOX. STOP ALLOWING THE MODERN WEB TO MAKE MONOLITHS.

TECH PEOPLE ESPECIALLY. FUCKING RUN YOUR OWN SHIT.

BRING BACK FORUMS.