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[–] [email protected] 115 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does everyone feel about the "isolation" of information exchange? Specifically with systems like discord which encourage you to congregate behind a wall? Historically things like community forums were open to the public and thus indexable.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hosting documentation on Discord is like hosting it on IRC.

While a useful tool in its own right, it's entirely the wrong choice for this job.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have a strong suspicion that 90% of that shit is not being backed up. If a server gets deleted for whatever reason, all the documentation is extra gone with a side of never coming back.

No wayback machine, no wget, no open source. Add in server moderators can go rogue or get hacked at any given time. Recipe for catastrophic shitshows

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

Discord provides no way to backup and restore a server. There are freemium third party products and some rudimentary open source tools that do so, but yeah, it’s wild how much information about open source software (this also applies to the game development community) is just in a proprietary walled garden with a single point of failure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Well, we left reddit for beginning to plant a walled garden, so...

[–] phdepressed 18 points 6 months ago

I'd say we left to plant a community garden. Anyone can see it, Anyone can join or start their own.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

If it’s indexable it’s not a walled garden

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We left because the previous garden is getting walled and this one isn't.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... That's what I said...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not clear if you talk about here or there I think