Maybe the dipshits who host the updated GoXLR firmware and software solely on Discord will finally take the advice to put it somewhere where it actually makes sense, like on their own fucking website where it should be.
I have one for my friends, (I know, I know, matrix), and that’s how I think discord should be used. It’s original purpose, friends hanging out. Now it’s every megacorp has a discord server and all their fans just fawn over them there. Pass for me, I just want voice and text chat with friends.
Getting people that you want to talk to – friends, family, etc – onto is a new platform is so difficult. No one wants to have 10 different communications apps, plus associated accounts*, just so they can talk to one or two people on each. It’s the network effect. It also doesn’t help that some of these platforms just aren’t as convenient or easy to use, especially for non-tech people.
But yeah, so many of these communities make no sense on Discord (or live chat period; IRC suffered from this too). I think troubleshooting is the worst, especially in larger, active communities. You have different conversations going on, so it’s easy to miss questions or answers. Plus, Discord’s search isn’t great, IMO. Better than reddit, but that’s not saying much. So someone probably asked the same question some time ago; good luck finding it, and even if you do, you still have to sift through the adjacent chat history to see if others responded and track that conversation.
Larger Discords remind me of the chats of large Twitch streamers, where the chat is going a million miles per hour. What’s even the point?
At least with a forum, it’s much slowed down, and there are clear divisions between topics, that give people the space to discuss those topics.
Websites are so easy to make these days, too. No coding experience even needed. I’m not saying Discord is worthless; it’s not and I use it plenty everyday. But it has its place. People need to use the right tools for the job.
*In many ways, websites suffer this issue, too. I have to make an account on this standalone separate website, just for my one question, and then after it gets answered, I’ll probably never go back to it? That’s why reddit (and Lemmy to a lesser extent) is so popular.
I don’t understand how people hang out in these places. It just doesn’t seem like a system conducive to discussion. The forum/link aggregator format works much better imo
For large groups absolutely, chat moves so fast that there’s no way that it can mean anything. Trying to get help in a gaming discord is just terrible.
However for a small group of friends it’s great, using discord for what it was meant to be used for (chatting with friends about games, setting up gaming nights, voice chat) is perfect.
Unfortunately seems like this won’t help that, if they expect you to be on the server to get the files. The article says the links will be auto refreshed daily, so it’s only the links shared outside the server that won’t work after a day :(
FUCK. You’re probably right. It’s such a ridiculous thing they make us go through just to get updated installers. Last I checked they don’t even make it obvious what the commands are to get the download links, you have to ask for them in chat and wait for someone to eventually reply back with them. It’s so annoying, they could just put the installers on the website next to the outdated one that’s been there forever.
I feel the same way. I end up being in 30 or so different Pokemon ROM hack servers just to get the patch files for the games. Very frustrating to have to do that when there are websites dedicated to hosting these files
Maybe the dipshits who host the updated GoXLR firmware and software solely on Discord will finally take the advice to put it somewhere where it actually makes sense, like on their own fucking website where it should be.
Seriously, I don’t know why people are so obsessed with creating pointless discord servers. Is it really that hard to host files elsewhere?
I have one for my friends, (I know, I know, matrix), and that’s how I think discord should be used. It’s original purpose, friends hanging out. Now it’s every megacorp has a discord server and all their fans just fawn over them there. Pass for me, I just want voice and text chat with friends.
Getting people that you want to talk to – friends, family, etc – onto is a new platform is so difficult. No one wants to have 10 different communications apps, plus associated accounts*, just so they can talk to one or two people on each. It’s the network effect. It also doesn’t help that some of these platforms just aren’t as convenient or easy to use, especially for non-tech people.
But yeah, so many of these communities make no sense on Discord (or live chat period; IRC suffered from this too). I think troubleshooting is the worst, especially in larger, active communities. You have different conversations going on, so it’s easy to miss questions or answers. Plus, Discord’s search isn’t great, IMO. Better than reddit, but that’s not saying much. So someone probably asked the same question some time ago; good luck finding it, and even if you do, you still have to sift through the adjacent chat history to see if others responded and track that conversation.
Larger Discords remind me of the chats of large Twitch streamers, where the chat is going a million miles per hour. What’s even the point?
At least with a forum, it’s much slowed down, and there are clear divisions between topics, that give people the space to discuss those topics.
Websites are so easy to make these days, too. No coding experience even needed. I’m not saying Discord is worthless; it’s not and I use it plenty everyday. But it has its place. People need to use the right tools for the job.
*In many ways, websites suffer this issue, too. I have to make an account on this standalone separate website, just for my one question, and then after it gets answered, I’ll probably never go back to it? That’s why reddit (and Lemmy to a lesser extent) is so popular.
I don’t understand how people hang out in these places. It just doesn’t seem like a system conducive to discussion. The forum/link aggregator format works much better imo
For large groups absolutely, chat moves so fast that there’s no way that it can mean anything. Trying to get help in a gaming discord is just terrible.
However for a small group of friends it’s great, using discord for what it was meant to be used for (chatting with friends about games, setting up gaming nights, voice chat) is perfect.
Unfortunately seems like this won’t help that, if they expect you to be on the server to get the files. The article says the links will be auto refreshed daily, so it’s only the links shared outside the server that won’t work after a day :(
FUCK. You’re probably right. It’s such a ridiculous thing they make us go through just to get updated installers. Last I checked they don’t even make it obvious what the commands are to get the download links, you have to ask for them in chat and wait for someone to eventually reply back with them. It’s so annoying, they could just put the installers on the website next to the outdated one that’s been there forever.
I feel the same way. I end up being in 30 or so different Pokemon ROM hack servers just to get the patch files for the games. Very frustrating to have to do that when there are websites dedicated to hosting these files
Just progressing backwards in ease of access for no good reason.