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Whenever I use Discord, I use it reluctantly. - no native clients, you have to run the official client either in a browser or as an electron app and using eith

Whenever I use Discord, I use it reluctantly. - no native clients, you have to run the official client either in a browser or as an electron app and using either of them consume too much resources and make my laptop run much hotter than it normally does - conversations are locked inside discord, you can't search them outside of Discord, imagine if all StackExchange websites including StackOverflow just became another Discord server and the disaster that would be for people everywhere So yeah, if a project or community I care about uses Discord, I guess I will use it, but reluctantly and with displeasure.

alin23 5y ago
Yes, the browser-based clients is something I don’t like either. I loved when Slack used to provide an IRC interface so you can use whatever simple client you want. But the syntax highlighting is so good on Discord, that it makes it really easy to discuss technical stuff. I would jump on a chat alternative that: • is Google searchable (like Gitter) • has good syntax highlighting (like Discord and Slack) • has CLI clients (like Mattermost) • has a low barrier entry for non-technical users • sign in with Google • state your issue • get solution in a few messages • forget about it if you don’t need to be part of that community
chownie 5y ago
Conversations are locked inside Discord the same way conversations are locked inside IRC, it's a community chat rather than a knowledge base/QA like stackexchange.
- ayushnix 5y ago
  Correct me if I'm mistaken but logs of public IRC servers are often available without needing to make an account on IRC, right?
  - chownie 5y ago
    You're mistaken, that's a channel by channel basis not a server by server kind of deal. Some channels include bots used to create public channel logs, but not all. Creating unauthorized public logs is usually considered against IRC etiquette so many channels go unlogged.

alin23 5y ago

Yes, the browser-based clients is something I don’t like either. I loved when Slack used to provide an IRC interface so you can use whatever simple client you want. But the syntax highlighting is so good on Discord, that it makes it really easy to discuss technical stuff. I would jump on a chat alternative that: • is Google searchable (like Gitter) • has good syntax highlighting (like Discord and Slack) • has CLI clients (like Mattermost) • has a low barrier entry for non-technical users • sign in with Google • state your issue • get solution in a few messages • forget about it if you don’t need to be part of that community

chownie 5y ago

Conversations are locked inside Discord the same way conversations are locked inside IRC, it's a community chat rather than a knowledge base/QA like stackexchange.

ayushnix 5y ago
Correct me if I'm mistaken but logs of public IRC servers are often available without needing to make an account on IRC, right?
- chownie 5y ago
  You're mistaken, that's a channel by channel basis not a server by server kind of deal. Some channels include bots used to create public channel logs, but not all. Creating unauthorized public logs is usually considered against IRC etiquette so many channels go unlogged.