Know that feeling

  • Purplexingg@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Don’t worry, once discord succeeds in killing every forum ever, you won’t be able to find anything like this again!

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      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.

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        2 years ago

        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.

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            2 years ago

            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.

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              2 years ago

              Slack is also an easier interface and layout. Discord is pretty confusing the first time you open it. The UI is definitely discordant.

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    2 years ago

    This happened to me, but the single result from 10 years earlier was unfortunately also me.

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    2 years ago

    I’ve been living in Denver for 10 years now and still hoping to one day run into DenverCoder9.

  • Cruxifux@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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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      2 years ago

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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.

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        2 years ago

        There’s going to be lots of those on Reddit with so many people deleting their past posts/comments.

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    2 years ago

    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.

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    2 years ago

    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