Know that feeling
Don't worry, once discord succeeds in killing every forum ever, you won't be able to find anything like this again!
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Discord is a poor replacement for forums. It's like hearing every conversation in a nightclub all at once. IRC, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and AOL Chat never killed forums, and I doubt Discord will either.
I hope not. I don't understand when people suggest discord as a replacement for forums or things like reddit. It's not really the same thing at all.
And that's to say nothing of it being pretty targeted towards gamers and gamer culture. I am a gamer and don't mind it but it's a barrier to adoption for people who aren't at all into that.
I play video games. I don't really like gamers or gamer culture very much at all.
I'm in the same boat. I at least sort of "understand" it if that makes sense? Like, it's not my bag but I know about it and that makes it easier to ignore.
But like...my wife is not at all a gamer. She goes to forums or reddit to follow hobby interests she has. Having a bunch of cringey leetspeak and gamer bro stuff is going to be off-putting to those types of people, and maybe enough to prevent them from adopting the platform at all.
It certainly factored into our decision to use slack for our college friends group instead of discord.
Slack is also an easier interface and layout. Discord is pretty confusing the first time you open it. The UI is definitely discordant.
Well at least their search function is good...
Oh wait it's complete shit
Slack too - just pay them $9 to access your own posts lol.
Slack kills me. A group of friends of mine from college use it to stayb in touch. Our instance has a dozen or so users, half of them mostly lurk to stay in the loop. For us active members it would definitely be worth paying 7.25/mo or whatever it is, but we don't want to lock out the others who don't really use it so often and they definitely wouldn't pay for it (and some can't really afford it).
I wish they had a tier below Pro for personal use (we aren't a business) that gave full post history and limited everything else and was maybe not per user billing but instead usage based. It's such a great, intuitive platform and works perfectly for our group of friends except that you can't go back to look at anything.
All the content that was gathered on Reddit as well.
Reddit is definitely engaged in some fuckery and is likely going to paywall their site.
The best discord support servers have a wiki they regularly update with the solutions they've helped people solve, though sometimes by just including them in their how-to guides. At least, that's the case with certain console homebrew/modding communities.
"Nevermind, I figured it out"
*thread closed
I want to hire Leam Neeson from Taken when I see those posts, to hunt that person down and beat them with a rubber garden hose.
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-thanks, that actually worked!Or it links to a image but the image no longer exists
This gets funnier the further away from 2003 we get
And more lonely.
Nvm, fixed it.
tears out hair
"Ah ok, thanks! That helped so much." Reply made by deleted user. Fml.
You search for some rare issue 😐
You find a thread that might solve it 🙂
The person has exact same issue (just for a different reason) 😀
There's an accepted answer 😃
"You don't need to do it this way" 😭
Or "Just google it"
Aaah, I am idiot. It's memes! I never clicked on those links before, xkcd sounds like a porn site xD.
That's hilarious. Guess you're one of today's lucky 10.000.
You can also embed the image
Like so: . So in this case 
Thanks, I saw embedded pictures before, but didn't know how to do that. Now I also learned something new today.
Though for xkcd comics there is an alt-text with an additional punchline for every comic (tap alt-text on mobile link or hover over the comic with the cursor on PC), so it's not ideal.
This happened to me, but the single result from 10 years earlier was unfortunately also me.
I've had something similar happen, except the post that I found which fixed the problem was made by... me. Apparently I'd had the problem before, figured it out, and then posted an update about why it was happening and how to fix it.
That was some Twilight Zone shit.
No shit had the same experience some days ago. Felt incredibly smart for having the problem solved before and super stupid for not remembering that. I stackoverflowed my own solution. 🫣
There's a description field, could people please start putting a link to the original xkcd, i.e. https://xkcd.com/979/ in this case? It's not that hard.
Without attribution you're just doing copyright infringement (see also https://xkcd.com/license.html). And you're hiding useful and nice information like the title text, the title, an the xkcd number, which you can use to get a transcription and an explanation on explainxkcd.
I’ve been living in Denver for 10 years now and still hoping to one day run into DenverCoder9.
The worst is when you see a post below it that’s like “2022 and this still isn’t solved, anybody have a fix for this yet?!?”
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Wow thanks, this fixed the issue perfectly, and it was so easy for a beginner like me!
Fucking drives me nuts.
There's going to be lots of those on Reddit with so many people deleting their past posts/comments.
This is my issue with redditors deleting all their content from reddit. I agree with leaving because of the policy changes, but I think that adopting a scorched earth policy, mostly harms other users.
On some level, protest is about harming other people, at least mildly. Protests are frustrating. Protests are interrupting. Protested make it more difficult for people to do what they want.
This is by design. This is part of the point.
Protests that aren't inconveniencing people are protests that can be safely ignored.
It's all the better, though, when those inconveniences can be paired with a clear alternative for people to turn to to have their needs met.
The distinguishment needs to be made that inconveniencing people who cannot make the needed change makes the entire protest immediately irrelevant.
For example, protesting in the middle of a highway does not inconvenience anyone that has the power to make a change. Those politicians are far away from the protest and don't care because it doesn't effect them or their pocketbook.
For Reddit, making it inconvenient for other users directly effects Reddit. Less and less user traffic is a major inconvenience for a tech company attempting to IPO. And they have the power to change. However, at this point the damage is beyond rolling back, I think.
Indeed. I at least think they should repost the helpful information here to Lemmy so that users still have access to it, I understand driving traffic away from Reddit but we should keep that useful information open to the community.
Very often that info is the result of a full conversation:
- I have problem A.
- Try B
- Not, working, I get error C
- Ah, change D in your config
- Now it's working, thanks.
That means automatation is more complicated, and there's also the legal aspect.
It's still very possible, but it probably stops quite a few people that considered this.
You're absolutely correct. It would need to be done manually and I understand people not wanting to put that effort in, I just feel bad about the information being lost.
I think many were just that disgusted still - but I do agree. Why I left mine if posted under technical subs - otherwise I removed mine by overwriting.
Yeah, personally I would have preferred keeping the content with some pretext like [This user has opted to leave reddit because of changes listed (here) and (here). Their content will remain in case someone needs this answer in the future, but will be providing new content over at Lemmy).
The AI is already trained, deleting it didn't do much, or if the AI will continue to train hopefully text like that will start popping up in it.
TBH when I get this I usually question my request, am I asking the right thing? Is what I’m doing stupid or so bafflingly wrong that a simpler question might be answerable? Then I ask chatgpt and get the wrong answer…but at least it’s an answer
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