Discord to start showing ads in the coming week

Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week by skidd0 on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @09:18AM (#39905419)

It's more than open source. A political party I tried to join organized via Discord. A hardware project offered support only through Discord. Seems most "communities" have one now. But I hate Discord and it's a poor tool for those jobs! A subreddit might have been better as I wouldn't need an account to view proir posts for troubleshooting, or organizing meetings.

Or an email address.

Or a contact form.

But no, only the aptly named Discord.

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Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week by ddejohn on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @04:43PM (#39910672)

Discord has been detrimental to many aspects of the internet. We really need a "next-gen" forum software, and for people to move back to using forums.

Discord is fine for gaming, sharing memes, and chatting with friends. We really need to stop using it for everything else.

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Re:Discord to start showing ads in the coming week by rescbr on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @05:36PM (#39911111)

> A subreddit might have been better as I wouldn't need an account to view proir posts for troubleshooting

Subreddits are not suitable as forums - you just have two sticky posts, and the Reddit format punishes long discussions in a single thread.

If you need to search older posts or want to keep context of some specific subject in a thread, a phpBB-style forum is better.

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