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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @07:17AM (#29713029)
> I bugs the hell out of me when I open discord with hundreds of new messages in different channels that I am assumed to want to keep track of. Yes, you can disable notification but …

I really don’t understand how people can think that having everyone self-host and maintain things like Quassel on a Raspberry Pi is a perfectly reasonable solution to the UX shortcomings of IRC, but then also insist that having to spend 30 seconds adjusting the basic settings in Discord is an unacceptably difficult task.

At some point, this conversation isn’t actually about UX or functionality. It’s about hating the new thing and clinging to the old ways.

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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by cardanome on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @07:34AM (#29713145)
People argue against discord for different reasons. You are making a straw man.

I would argue that those Raspberry Pi based solutions are nice to have but not needed. In fact I argued you don't need history most of the time and that not offering central storage of history can be reasonable.

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