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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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[–] nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 158 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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 116 points 4 days 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.

[–] zensanto@ttrpg.network 55 points 4 days ago (2 children)

🤮

Who are the morons that keep making these decisions?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago

Several open source developers in this case

[–] foggenbooty@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's people that don't want to have to maintain things, which I understand. It's trivial these days to host a forum with a cloud provider, or have a github, but Discord is one click. It's not the ideal tool, but one click, no payment, and you have a place everyone can talk to each other.

[–] ferrule@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

This is my biggest pet peeve of OSS projects. Someone writes some code and that is where it ends for them. The rest of the infrastructure is so free and so easy that there is no need for dedication to the project.