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• cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with good old fashioned data base backed message forums? There are so many implementations available, I’m sure many are FOSS, and I’m sure there’s managed solutions as well. It’s a mature, tested, rock solid reliable technology that has existed pretty much since the inception of the internet, and can be easily incorporated into other tools and workflows - because there is 40+ years of development work with the concept.

  Seriously, why?

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  • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Forums are great for being forums. Real-time instant messaging, voice chat, video chat, and screen sharing are all a very different use-case. They’re two entirely separate products, and comparing them is apples and oranges. People are looking to replace Discord with Discord-like services, because forums don’t fucking do what Discord does. The big problem (and the reason everyone seems to compare the two) is because Discord started eating forums, as companies realized it was easier to create a Discord server instead of creating (and hosting, and maintaining) a support forum.

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    • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He is talking about forums because the main issue with discord is that it’s cut from the rest of the internet so nothing is indexed and a lot of platforms and services use discord like a forum (it isn’t).

      No one wants our conversations indexed, and discord shouldn’t be a forum.

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      • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly my point - And public help forums should be indexed, and should not be on Discord.

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    • cheesybuddha@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is not comparing apples to oranges, there are many companies that use Discord as a direct replacement to help forums or product wikis.

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      • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Read the rest of my comment.

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• iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, I share the complaint of Discord having tons of unindexable knowledge locked away in it, but forums are not good replacement for my friend group. So yeah we kinda want a Discord alternative specifically.

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  • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wire exists.

    Obviously the problem isn’t you and your friends, the problems is services that use discord like it’s a forum, dispatcharr for example “oh do you want support? Join our discord”. Fine, I’ll figure it out myself.

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  • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Matrix is great for this. Fluffy chat is a client that even uses jitsi for video chats

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    • who@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For others who are interested:

      matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

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    • iamthetot@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does it work on Linux?

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      • ThunderQueen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I found it on linux

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• Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  [cries]

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