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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 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 1 point 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child)

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.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 1 point 3 weeks 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.

[–] stressballs@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

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 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Emopunker@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Sounds great. I hope it has video chat and screenshare or will implement it soon.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 point 3 weeks ago

They do have those things from what I can tell.

[–] craigers@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

As someone who has spent the last 2+ years testing revolt/stoat, matrix with element, and teamspeak, desperately searching for any viable discord alternative, I'm very interested in this. Where did you come across it? I tried to create an account but stuck pulsing on a loading screen.

[–] lorenzoquintavalle@mastodon.uno 1 point 2 weeks ago

@craigers @other_cat can I ask what was the issue with using matrix as a discord replacement? I would like to propose it to some friends, so it would be good to know if there are some fatal flaws