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Discord has shut down the Discord servers for the Nintendo Switch emulators Suyu and Sudachi (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So they should switch to element.io, or host their own forum thingie on a VPS somewhere. Why is Discord essential? (Hint: it's not)

[+] [email protected] -9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Discord is currently the best for managing Communities. I dont see Matrix being even close to discord. Its partly similar, but lacks too much what makes Discord great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What makes discord "great" exactly?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

bs. discord is absolute trash for anything but live chatting. it does nothing different from plain old irc with a bnc and bots. they just took irc and made it easy for stupid people to use and slapped voice comm on top; which also already existed. using it as an archive, broadcast and support system is like trying to use a hammer to screw in a screw. people just use discord because people use discord. just like people just use facebook because people use facebook.

if you want to manage a community, you should use discourse. it's the most modern alternative. if you want a public chat, use any chat you want that supports public chat, the only difference between all of them is what level of privacy they provide.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A 'old school' forum would be actually way better. Why? It is searchable with external tools, can be found with search engines and can be easily preserved and archived by orgs like archive.org

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Then they could also just use a Lemmy community

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Luckily discord is awful at filling useful information out of its history. So, unlike something like Reddit, dropping it for something else shouldn’t be a big deal.