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[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should just spin up their own Lemmy instance

[โ€“] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and a Matrix instance

[โ€“] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Even beyond the point of "using discord". Nintendo is reaching harassment levels of assholism. Are they doing even worse that with Gaty Bowser?

[โ€“] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Man fuck Nintendo at this point. WE ARE ALLOWED TO EMULATE, GET FUCKED

[โ€“] obinice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why ๐Ÿ‘ is ๐Ÿ‘ every ๐Ÿ‘ word ๐Ÿ‘ padded ๐Ÿ‘ by ๐Ÿ‘ emoticons ๐Ÿ‘ ?

[โ€“] Pra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

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[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

They are emoji. Emoticons are these things :( :)

[โ€“] Carighan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What I hate most about this is how they now moved to Rocket Chat.

Come on people. Use a forum. Get the message, finally. Do it!

[โ€“] Crafter72@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty sure most of people who mainly use discord as their main social apps probably never touched forum-based internet.

Hosting your own forum is also better as you (the owner of the site) can still retrieve the msgs as long as you still have the access to the host server (so you can back them up in case shutting down, then going to resurfacing later).

Not to mention using discord is already risking yourself because of their shitty policy.

[โ€“] bfg9k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's so goddamn easy to set up a basic forum site for a few bucks a month, and it's not like there aren't hundreds of options for file sharing as well.

The Xbox and PSP modding forums were where I used to hang out before Reddit, a well-designed and run forum is so much better than trying to basically make a website out of a chat room.

[โ€“] Untitled4774@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And itโ€™s a million times better for people trying to troubleshoot.

1 forum post can solve many problems, rather than having to have each person ask in a support chat thatโ€™s not searchable.

[โ€“] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically Discord is trying to solve this with their threads feature, but I've found either the server owners don't force it or the users don't use it. Either way, it sucks.

[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to be using an encrypted platform hosted in a country out of reach of Nintendo

[โ€“] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Semantics, given the scope and intention of my comment

[โ€“] daltotron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Still not the point of a live-chat application. The use case is not the same as a forum. You want an archive where everything is well-organized and most questions have already been answered. Discord and other live chat services are more like live tech support, to fill the gap between the raw technical documentation found in GitHub, and the just getting started guide or FAQ, which are usually lightweight enough that they could be posted anywhere. Discord doesn't exist to be an archive that holds all the knowledge, discord exists so that when you open an app, you can go in, ask a couple questions, and hopefully someone will get to you in a couple minutes, at most, rather than in a couple days.