Know that feeling
Don’t worry, once discord succeeds in killing every forum ever, you won’t be able to find anything like this again!
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.
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.
I play video games. I don’t really like gamers or gamer culture very much at all.
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.
Slack is also an easier interface and layout. Discord is pretty confusing the first time you open it. The UI is definitely discordant.
Well at least their search function is good…
Oh wait it’s complete shit
All the content that was gathered on Reddit as well.
Reddit is definitely engaged in some fuckery and is likely going to paywall their site.
The best discord support servers have a wiki they regularly update with the solutions they’ve helped people solve, though sometimes by just including them in their how-to guides. At least, that’s the case with certain console homebrew/modding communities.
“Nevermind, I figured it out”
*thread closed
I want to hire Leam Neeson from Taken when I see those posts, to hunt that person down and beat them with a rubber garden hose.
This gets funnier the further away from 2003 we get
And more lonely.
You search for some rare issue 😐
You find a thread that might solve it 🙂
The person has exact same issue (just for a different reason) 😀
There’s an accepted answer 😃
“You don’t need to do it this way” 😭This happened to me, but the single result from 10 years earlier was unfortunately also me.
I’ve been living in Denver for 10 years now and still hoping to one day run into DenverCoder9.
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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Wow thanks, this fixed the issue perfectly, and it was so easy for a beginner like me!
Fucking drives me nuts.
There’s going to be lots of those on Reddit with so many people deleting their past posts/comments.
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
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.
Indeed. I at least think they should repost the helpful information here to Lemmy so that users still have access to it, I understand driving traffic away from Reddit but we should keep that useful information open to the community.
Yeah, personally I would have preferred keeping the content with some pretext like [This user has opted to leave reddit because of changes listed (here) and (here). Their content will remain in case someone needs this answer in the future, but will be providing new content over at Lemmy).
The AI is already trained, deleting it didn’t do much, or if the AI will continue to train hopefully text like that will start popping up in it.
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-thanks, that actually worked!
