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Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (20 children)

The amount of niche info that would have been found in searchable forum posts in years prior, that has now gotten sucked up into Discord where it can’t be found, fucking blows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

Well, forums are not real time, and that's what most people these days want apparently.

So, on to the alternatives:

Element / Matrix:

Lackluster moderation tools
Voice channels not ready
Signing up is hard / federation not well explained

Revolt Chat

Run by very talented kiddies
Not stable
Not easily self-hostable

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Forums are the best? I still can get info from electronics forums from 20y ago and it's well organized.

I don't see any other alternatives, revolt chat is new and just a discord alternative that sucks as well while element is fricking bad at indexing stuff, you can't search anything there not to mention their bad encryption.