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I totally agree, and also stop using FB groups it's even worse. But the issue is no replacement is proposed by the author. Discord has the advantage of: - be
by poulpy123 2y ago
I totally agree, and also stop using FB groups it's even worse.
But the issue is no replacement is proposed by the author.
Discord has the advantage of:
- being free
- being maintained by someone else
- being used by a lot of people, so no need to create a new account for many users
- being very useful as a chat and growing organically as support from there
I don't see many competitors available. For example discourse is paid 50€ per month for 100 users maximum, which small project can pay that ?
Edit: I rarely see FB mentioned on these debates but it's probably by far the biggest place used for forum. I'm a member of several 10k+ groups. Even discords don't come close of it. The official bambulab group is 60k people, the hiking group of my area (1 million inhabitants max) is 30k people. The numbers are insane, as is the information invisible and lost
- hprotagonist 2y agolibera.chat is free. the network doesn’t compel registration, even! (though some channels do)
- hu3 2y agounfortunately, irc is not a replacement for discord.
- hprotagonist 2y agodiscord is just IRC in a trenchcoat. what’s to replace?
- scientist4397 2y agoThe missing feature of IRC is to be able to get all the messages even when you’re offline. V3 was as missed opportunity for that
- cykros 2y agoYou mean like you get if you run a BNC, or just run your irssi or weechat inside a screen session, or headless X session that you reattach remotely? I've never understood people who log out of IRC.
- theshrike79 2y agoVoice chat, Video chat, emojis, embedded gifs, smart embeds of links.
- hu3 2y agoalso: - edit/delete messages - code highlight - notifications - fast search that works for everyone: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-stores-billions-of-mess...
- hprotagonist 2y agomost of these things are client-specific but available with IRC. (edits aren’t)
- stnmtn 2y agoHow long would it take to explain to someone who just wants to voice/video chat with their friends how they can set this functionality up with the same ease as discord? And how much will it cost for them to do that?
- poulpy123 2y agoIt looks like a small IRC-like chat, not a replacement for a forum and not even for discord-as-a-forum
- hprotagonist 2y agoit’s the new name for freenode — so it is IRC and large (by IRC standards…)
- TheChaplain 2y agoLibera Chat is a fork of Freenode. The later still exist, but all communities I know moved to Libera.
- consp 2y ago> FB groups it's even worse You can't even view them partially anymore since you illegally have to give up your rights to do so.
- wavyknife 2y agoHello! I work for Discourse, it's open source so you can self-host most sites on a cloud provider like Digital Ocean for ~$20/mo
- poulpy123 2y agoI actually enjoy Discourse, it's the best software for forum that I encounter as a user, but someone who wants to create a forum using it must either pay at least 1200€/year or know how to manage a server, including securing it. I'm not saying that the price is not justified (it is) and it's great that it is free software for anyone to install it, but for most non pro usage it cannot compete with discord.