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I didn't feel comfortable giving discord my phone number when they demanded it, so I lost access to the open source communities that insist on collaborating the
by elevation 1y ago
I didn't feel comfortable giving discord my phone number when they demanded it, so I lost access to the open source communities that insist on collaborating there.
I wish breaches like this would cause people to reconsider their choices but sadly, it's unlikely most users will move.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoThe issue is if you don't enforce the phone number requirement on your server you get all the trolls who don't use phone numbered accounts. I wish Discord would allow you to restrict known VPNs instead of requiring phone numbers. It would solve so many issues. I know a LOT of VPNs wont be caught, but if you block MOST non-residential IP blocks, you'll capture a lot of them.
- fishgoesblub 1y agoThe communities I'm in don't require a phone number and very rarely gets trolls. Proper moderation is the most important part. Occasionally there's a spambot, but they're just hacked accounts from pre-existing real users, and as someone that uses a VPN with Discord, I'd prefer to not be treated as an evil-doer please.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoSure, are the communities you're in tens of thousands of users or more? Because things change really quickly depending on how many users are active, if it's a community server, and the subject matter. Even a programming Discord is a hell hole. You cannot have enough mods ever. Things fall through the cracks and people get hurt. You can't moderate DMs or know the wellbeing of tens of thousands of your users who are being harassed in DMs and have no idea how to get help. Discords full of a lot of youth. Theres users who rotate community servers on a VPN / new spun up alts. They are relentless. I noticed the communities that are massive and do not have this problem to this extend all require phone number.
- elevation 1y agoPhone numbers may be required to bring order to a vast international user base, but a few dozen devs and a small user community can function without invasive moderation tactics.
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- csmantle 1y agoTrolls likely have access to phone number farms though. And in some parts of the world it's extra cheap to mass-register phone numbers. Trolls wouldn't be harmed in a data leak, only normal users get hurt.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoOnce a phone is banned though, it's unusable again at least in a given server. Discord will treat it like an IP ban (which they also do).
- noitpmeder 1y agoMost trolls aren't the kind of trolls that run large scale networks, they're the 12 year olds you triggered by saying BLM
- hn1291378112 1y ago[dead]
- Gigachad 1y agoDiscord doesn’t require a phone number. It’s individual community owners who opt to require it. You can create a server that doesn’t require one but it effectively means you can’t ban people since they can just sign up again on a new account.
- LoganDark 1y agoDiscord has an account flag that triggers a mandatory phone number verification. It happens if you do things like send messages too quickly over the span of about a minute, or send multiple friend requests, or join too many servers, or start too many DMs, or indeed, join any server that is set to require phone number verification.
- zahlman 1y agoI am in dozens of servers and have not encountered this demand for a phone number. I have been in servers that required it for moderators as part of 2FA, and I just declined to moderate there. It had no effect on my use of any other server.
- malfist 1y agoJust because something hasn't happened to you, doesn't mean it doesn't happen to other people
- xorbax 1y agoIt never happened to him, so it's never happened Makes this huge data leak a real head scratcher
- zahlman 1y ago[dead]
- Aachen 1y agoIf it doesn't rain one day, that's not evidence there exists no rain That's about the level of evidence that your specific user account offers to you about whether phone verification is a thing their anti-spam algorithms can trigger...
- nulld3v 1y agoI also wish open-source communities would move off of Discord for another reason: Users are limited to joining a maximum of 100 servers. I've hit the cap and it's driving me crazy. It's really easy to hit it since each friend group, hobby group, gaming community, and open-source community often all have their own servers.
- noitpmeder 1y agoI can barely keep up with 6 semi active discord servers, each with tens of semi active channels... Much less think about doing it with hundreds. More power to you, must have figured out a good notification scheme
- jamwil 1y agoI am super curious how other people use discord. I’m like you—trying and basically failing to keep up with 6 servers. I just want to watch a power user out of morbid curiosity. I suspect they are also browser tab hoarders, which I’m also curious about.
- nulld3v 1y agoI don't really care about the notifications. I just want to read what's in the servers. Lots of communities post their announcements/links/resources in their Discord servers. It is sometimes possible to view a Discord server without joining it, but it is painful compared to just joining the server.
- Aachen 1y agoThat limit is per account, right?