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Discord’s Second Attempt To Roll Out Age Verification Is Going Badly
kotaku.com/discords-second-attempt-to-roll-out-age-verification-is-going-badly-2000737908Replying to @inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
Yet the entire software community depends on it for everything
Replying to @chunes@lemmy.world
I really don’t understand how a chat app for gamers became so big in the software development community. It’s such a poor choice, especially for support. Nothing is indexed in search engines, and people can’t see messages unless they join. I’ve even seen some projects use Discord for bug tracking. It’s woefully inadequate for that.
Because it has a lot of good tools for finding what you need on an intuitive platform focused around communities similar to Reddit.
Let’s be real Discord is popular because it does a lot of things really well.
Replying to @Sordid_Seraphim@lemmy.zip
it has a lot of good tools for finding what you need
As a moderator and the primary troubleshooter for a 12k member discord server, no the fuck it does not.
new user joins
Hey, how do I X?
It’s in pins.
new user joins
Hey, how do I Y?
It’s in pins.
new user joins
Hey, how do I Z?
It’s in pins.
Kill me. Or bring back old-school forums. One of the two.
Replying to @frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
What your talking about has nothing to do with the tools and everything to do with stupid users never reading or using resources available.
Replying to @Sordid_Seraphim@lemmy.zip
you search and go through the results. read a long one 3 screen lengths down the scroll and it was useless. go back to the search and it’s back at the top again. scroll more and question if they are even in the same order.
go to the pins and even though you saw it there yesterday its gone. look again later and it turns out sometimes it just takes loger to load them.
go to read the rules but then find out that sometimes they cant be viewed on android and you have to go to desktop to do it. epecially when the server has a bunch of things to click in acknowledgment before the channels show up.