discord has ads now and every time I see something that reminds me of them I have conniptions
[Image: thanks discord!!]
typical vc-funded slop. you'll never ever see this on pi.andrewph.org
editor's note: I couldn't get a real ad to pop up for demonstration purposes, because I use Discord in a browser and block the ads.
Long ago, people used these things called "forums" (or "bulletin boards") to speak to other people online, in a way that was publicly accessible and crawlable in most cases.
That was great, it was the golden age of information sharing. It allowed search engines such as Google to not only rise to glory, but also to help people find the information they need. So much information was just out in the open for search engines to crawl, and then subsequently viewed without the need for a third-party application.
This also meant that searching that information could be performed by more than just the search functionality built-in; Say there's a certain search engine that is able to search Russian language in a more natural way, but the search function built-into the site is more oriented towards the English grammatical structure- no problem! just use that other search engine.
Now we have Discord, a chat application being used in place of forums almost entirely in many cases. Sure, it's convenient and the features between "servers" (really more akin to guilds, as they're called in the backend) are consistent-ish, but it's got a lot of serious problems.
What problems does Discord have, exactly?
I made a discord notification plugin for this thing and this is a post designed to test if it works.
what do you mean
cheese isn't
a food group
anymore