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Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by mulmen on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:07PM (#32462470)
Discord scares the crap out of me. I just don’t trust the app. I couldn’t figure out how to stop it from opening on boot. And it has access to my camera and mic for some reason? Managing identities across different communities seems leaky at best because I think I have to change my name after joining. I’m sure a lot of this is my own ignorance of the tool but I have no interest in learning a modern gamer chat service. None of it is going to stay the same in 10 years, or even 10 weeks. That’s all a hard pass.

This says nothing of what a terrible choice it is for a knowledge base, especially long term. The only way you choose Discord is if you aren’t thinking beyond the “next release”. That’s a huge red flag in a fundamental framework project like this.

Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by kayodelycaon on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:16PM (#32462540)
Changing your nickname on a server doesn’t hide the name used on your account from anyone. This is why I’m not on my work’s discord server.
Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by kaetemi on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:21PM (#32462582)
You can have multiple accounts in the Discord client now.
Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by mulmen on Monday August 15, 2022 @02:55AM (#32466632)
Sure. For now. But I have to carefully police the features of every release before I start the application.

It’s a minefield. People will get hurt. Those of us who have been around will be entitled to say we told you so. But I hope users move away before they get hurt, which will happen.

This is a proprietary application and protocol. It will come back and hurt you. Get out while you can.

Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by userbinator on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:45PM (#32462785)
And it has access to my camera and mic for some reason?

That's not unexpected given that it has voice and video chat functionality.

if you aren’t thinking beyond the “next release”.

I think that lack of long-term thinking is endemic to the JS community in general, unfortunately.

Re:Will Bun JavaScript Take Node's Crown by mulmen on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:38AM (#32466218)
It’s not unexpected but it is undesired.