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The "I took my marbles and went home, but I hear you all are so bad at this stuff, so I'll trouble myself to come back and save everyone" bit was completely unn

The "I took my marbles and went home, but I hear you all are so bad at this stuff, so I'll trouble myself to come back and save everyone" bit was completely unnecessary and savior-complex-y. I nearly didn't read the important bit (discord is basically EOL'ing the current stable API in a matter of months) because my eyes rolled so hard I nearly fell off my chair. Discord is a company that seems to just fly by the seat of their pants. A great example would be "threads", for which they rolled out with no notice to server admins - it just suddenly appeared - and worse, threads were rolled out before thread-related roles were. Even worse: threads created before the roles were updated to include thread roles could not be deleted by server admins/moderators. The mind boggles that such a large company, presumably full of very qualified and well paid engineers (and likely piles of "UX" people) could generate such a clusterfuck. Another great "feature" of discord: blocking someone, unlike every other platform save IRC, does not hide your content from them. It hides them from you.

Aeolun 5y ago
In my experience this is a feature of startups. The enterprise I work at doesn’t ship releases with major bugs, period. But in exchange they release only once every 6 months, and releases are very likely to be postponed if any defect is found (even if this occurs in maybe 1/10,000 cases). Discord gets to move fast at some expense to the users, but mostly those users do not care, as long as messaging/voice chat functionality isn’t impacted.
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d3nj4l 5y ago
Idk what you mean about threads. They were a long time coming and as a member of several communities most mods were well aware of them before they came up.
- Operyl 5y ago
  Their launch was sudden and immediate for non-large servers (basically partnered servers iirc) and was a moderation hell for some of us medium size servers when they suddenly got turned on. Long time coming? Yes. Time to prepare? Zero, since it just immediately turned on for most users.
pie_flavor 5y ago
> unlike every other platform save IRC Blocking a user so you no longer see their posts is a long established feature of various web forums, chat systems, and comment sections. I do not know how you would come under the impression that the reverse is true; the only platforms I know of where it is, is the four or five social media giants. People do complain about Discord blocks, but they complain about them because there is still a 'N blocked messages' indicator, not because of what direction the blocks go.
seanhunter 5y ago
> Another great "feature" of discord: blocking someone, unlike every other platform save IRC, does not hide your content from them. It hides them from you. Not sure what point you're making here. The equivalent of a "block" that goes the other way is kicking or banning the user. That works the same on IRC.

Aeolun 5y ago

In my experience this is a feature of startups. The enterprise I work at doesn’t ship releases with major bugs, period. But in exchange they release only once every 6 months, and releases are very likely to be postponed if any defect is found (even if this occurs in maybe 1/10,000 cases). Discord gets to move fast at some expense to the users, but mostly those users do not care, as long as messaging/voice chat functionality isn’t impacted.

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d3nj4l 5y ago

Idk what you mean about threads. They were a long time coming and as a member of several communities most mods were well aware of them before they came up.

Operyl 5y ago
Their launch was sudden and immediate for non-large servers (basically partnered servers iirc) and was a moderation hell for some of us medium size servers when they suddenly got turned on. Long time coming? Yes. Time to prepare? Zero, since it just immediately turned on for most users.

pie_flavor 5y ago

> unlike every other platform save IRC Blocking a user so you no longer see their posts is a long established feature of various web forums, chat systems, and comment sections. I do not know how you would come under the impression that the reverse is true; the only platforms I know of where it is, is the four or five social media giants. People do complain about Discord blocks, but they complain about them because there is still a 'N blocked messages' indicator, not because of what direction the blocks go.

seanhunter 5y ago

> Another great "feature" of discord: blocking someone, unlike every other platform save IRC, does not hide your content from them. It hides them from you. Not sure what point you're making here. The equivalent of a "block" that goes the other way is kicking or banning the user. That works the same on IRC.