• @AgreeableLandscapeOP
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    2 years ago

    I’d take an old school phpBB forum over Discord any day.

    Hey, maybe Lemmy could start to slowly replace it as a forum software? Imagine open source projects having their own Lemmy instances just for discussing development instead of relying on things like Discord! Lemmy is way more powerful discussion platform and it’s actually designed specifically for that use case!

    • @hamfandango@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Absolutely. We can still have matrix instances for chatting. There is nothing inherently bad about an inpermanent format, it has its place. However as the need of having anything last for more than a week, with the possibility of being occasionaly accessed years from now, a lemmy, forum-like, format is a must.

      In my mind information storing needs two major things set straight from the get go: organization and sorting of information, and searchability. Discord, to my experience, barely has either.

    • @Zerush
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      52 years ago

      MyBBis a good choice, I think, FOSS, selfhosted and nice UI