Users won't actually leave Discord. I emphasized 'some' in the opening paragraph because the announcement states that the vast majority of existing users won't be impacted (^1^the platform already has enough usage information to reliably identify their age).
I might have misunderstood the comment I replied to, and the username led me to think it was intentionally snarky because of the thumbnail. In that case yes, it is extremely ironic.
As an aside, I taken some training and certification exams from a vendor that’s pretty highly respected in my industry. When I started taking their courses they provided student interaction and lab help from employees through a forum. They deprecated that and moved entirely to Discord in like 2021. Now it’s a flood of the same questions asked over and over again, and it doesn’t feel like an extension of the learning process when you have to ask a question or get help. I hate everything about it.
These people offer training courses up to and including shit like security mitigation bypasses, complex heap manipulations, and 64-bit kernel exploitation. They are more than capable of rolling their own self-hosted platform, and if their students can’t figure out how to use a forum idk what they’re doing in the course in the first place.
8 Comments
irmadlad@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 214d
^1^We already know who you are LOL
devilsedvocate@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 214d
Seems ironic to host a self-host discussion on a platform like Discord
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 214d
It’s a blog post.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · 8 pts · 214d
It mentions how several open source projects have their communities on Discord.
borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 214d
I might have misunderstood the comment I replied to, and the username led me to think it was intentionally snarky because of the thumbnail. In that case yes, it is extremely ironic.
As an aside, I taken some training and certification exams from a vendor that’s pretty highly respected in my industry. When I started taking their courses they provided student interaction and lab help from employees through a forum. They deprecated that and moved entirely to Discord in like 2021. Now it’s a flood of the same questions asked over and over again, and it doesn’t feel like an extension of the learning process when you have to ask a question or get help. I hate everything about it.
These people offer training courses up to and including shit like security mitigation bypasses, complex heap manipulations, and 64-bit kernel exploitation. They are more than capable of rolling their own self-hosted platform, and if their students can’t figure out how to use a forum idk what they’re doing in the course in the first place.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · 2 pts · 214d
Yeah that sounds terrible. Also my main reason to hate discord.
northernlights@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 214d
I look forward to these posts/emails every week, keep up the good work please :)
bagbrugsen@piefed.social · 5 pts · 214d
Fluxer seems to be an exciting alternative to discord, that is mentioned in the weekly post on selfhost.