• MashedTech@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    go back to forums. Support in discord is awful. Discord is not as searchable as a forum public on the internet

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, forums please. I hate the idea of troubleshooting information being locked behind some stupid software we can’t easily index and search. Forums can be put on archive.org, you can literally print a page, or save it as a PDF for reviewing later. You can make use of bookmark software like Linkwarden to archive things.

      Discord? Not so much. You can use third party software to scrape it and save information, but no search engine can index it. Community building is great, but I loathe having to trawl through tonnes of blithering blathering conversation BS just to figure out where to find firmware for a particular chip I have is.

      Makes me want to projectile vomit all over the place, throw my computer out the window, and move to convent.

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      20 hours ago

      I want to move my music discord to a forum platform. Can anyone recommend a good FOSS forum with good iOS/mobile app support? Some of the musicians are going to resist if there isn’t a decent, usable, mobile app. It’s been a long time since I set up a forum. Last one I installed on a server was phpBB!

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      20 hours ago

      I may sound too radical, but I’d go so far as to support a common Logseq knowledge graph.