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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yah, I don't get this. So I log into Discord to ask a question, and the only people that will see it are the ones that are currently on at the time. The likelihood of it being seen by the person that can answer it are low, and it's not like it's going to be visible for when that person logs back in. This is all besides the fact that I could probably have answered it myself with a search of old questions on some platform that can be indexed. It's utterly bizarre.

If you're running a FOSS project or a community that needs support, you have rocks in your goddamn head if you think Discord is how to do it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

The one thing Discord is good at is engagement, aka pinging people on their phones, repeating conversations that have been answered a million times, getting people drawn into rambling discussions...

Yeah it's kind of a nightmare lol.