Didn't we use things like irc in the past?
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoI know there’s nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info… We’re overdue for a forum Renaissance.
Neato@kbin.social 11 months ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that’s still where serious people go to talk about their field, but somehow there’s some fields where people have forgotten that.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures…
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s an issue with the cost of storage back then meaning that people needed external hosts, but these days if Reddit and Lemmy can self host then an equivalent forum could do it too.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
You aren’t “archiving” shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run
Which leave “dark web” sites that very much do exist but don’t get linked in news articles
seathru@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And Usenet before that.
quo@feddit.uk 11 months ago
[deleted]Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Even with logs they’re still a party because without threads it’s just questions getting twisted again and again and again without being able to refer the person to a previous part of the discussion where they could find all answers they need…
tourist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You got a point
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Forgot to mention that you have to give them your phone number. That one really pisses me off.
n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
You dont want my credit card? Where do I sign up?
QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Discord got problems… but none of those things I’ve encountered. Save for the
And are you really going to complain about being shown the rules of the place before use? You got a point on notifications too but that’s it. Annoying, but easy to deal with (right click server, disable notifications, boom done that’s it.)
The other shit I could be easily convinced you’re straight up making up.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Forgot the part where you are sometimes FORCED to join some discord server, be it for downloading a mod just one time or troubleshoot something else. And then sometimes comes the part you listed.