> FB groups it's even worse
You can't even view them partially anymore since you illegally have to give up your rights to do so.
Hello! I work for Discourse, it's open source so you can self-host most sites on a cloud provider like Digital Ocean for ~$20/mo
I actually enjoy Discourse, it's the best software for forum that I encounter as a user, but someone who wants to create a forum using it must either pay at least 1200€/year or know how to manage a server, including securing it. I'm not saying that the price is not justified (it is) and it's great that it is free software for anyone to install it, but for most non pro usage it cannot compete with discord.
Re:Stop Using Discord
by hprotagonist on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:18AM
(#40534128)
libera.chat is free. the network doesn’t compel registration, even! (though some channels do)
It looks like a small IRC-like chat, not a replacement for a forum and not even for discord-as-a-forum
Re:Stop Using Discord
by hprotagonist on Friday May 31, 2024 @09:39AM
(#40535002)
it’s the new name for freenode — so it is IRC and large (by IRC standards…)
Re:Stop Using Discord
by TheChaplain on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:46PM
(#40540048)
Libera Chat is a fork of Freenode. The later still exist, but all communities I know moved to Libera.
unfortunately, irc is not a replacement for discord.
Re:Stop Using Discord
by hprotagonist on Friday May 31, 2024 @09:37AM
(#40534977)
discord is just IRC in a trenchcoat. what’s to replace?
Re:Stop Using Discord
by theshrike79 on Friday May 31, 2024 @09:44AM
(#40535065)
Voice chat, Video chat, emojis, embedded gifs, smart embeds of links.
also:
- edit/delete messages
- code highlight
- notifications
- fast search that works for everyone:
https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...
Re:Stop Using Discord
by hprotagonist on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:39AM
(#40535813)
most of these things are client-specific but available with IRC. (edits aren’t)
How long would it take to explain to someone who just wants to voice/video chat with their friends how they can set this functionality up with the same ease as discord? And how much will it cost for them to do that?
Re:Stop Using Discord
by scientist4397 on Friday May 31, 2024 @05:49PM
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The missing feature of IRC is to be able to get all the messages even when you’re offline. V3 was as missed opportunity for that
But the issue is no replacement is proposed by the author.
Discord has the advantage of:
- being free
- being maintained by someone else
- being used by a lot of people, so no need to create a new account for many users
- being very useful as a chat and growing organically as support from there
I don't see many competitors available. For example discourse is paid 50€ per month for 100 users maximum, which small project can pay that ?
Edit: I rarely see FB mentioned on these debates but it's probably by far the biggest place used for forum. I'm a member of several 10k+ groups. Even discords don't come close of it. The official bambulab group is 60k people, the hiking group of my area (1 million inhabitants max) is 30k people. The numbers are insane, as is the information invisible and lost