person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:

  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, “wow a cool software. let’s check out the community”
  2. screenshot with the text

    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

  3. hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
  4. person looking behind with the text “nevermind”.
  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9410·
    10 months ago

    I don’t get discord at all. It seems like the worst parts or IRC and the worst parts of webforums mashed together with no redeeming values added. I can’t find anything, I can’t tell what conversations are over, I can’t figure out any of the in-jokes. If the place is too dead it’s completely devoid of anything of value, if it’s too big everything of value gets buried.

    I’ve tried to take part in a couple of servers, those attempts have never last more than a couple hours.

    • LilDumpy@lemmy.world
      361·
      10 months ago

      That’s was my exact experience on a pokemon go server. So many channels and conversations that notifications are useless and searching for the information I needed was difficult. Just one giant group chat which is awful for storing needed, retrievable, information imo.

      Made me never want to step into discord again.

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      312·
      10 months ago

      It’s great for smallish groups of friends bs-ing or collaborating, but bigger than that I’ve always found it painful

      But, some people can apparently keep up with the firehouse of comments on Twitch streams while they make me not want to bother with it at all, so…

    • YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
      17·
      10 months ago

      It has probably the worst UI of any site or app. I can never find the settings I need to modify or what the heck I’m looking at. It tells me that there’s a new reply specifically to me but I can never find it because it has long scrolled up in the history.

      I tried posting an image using the app on my phone but it kept ignoring it. Somehow I magically hit the right button and it included it in my reply. I had no idea.

      The content is hidden from the world unless you sign up and join, so the knowledge captured on a discord server is essentially useless.

      It’s definitely a mashup on irc and web forums, but infinitely worse.

      • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        Yeah that’s what I use most to see if people have asked the same question I have then I jump to the discussion they had and that leads me where I want to go, but I do get it would be really annoying for someone who isn’t logged into discord or uses it to chat with friends

        • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
          13·
          10 months ago

          Forums do it better, can be indexed by a search engine, can be bookmarked, and can be archived using the wayback machine or a similar service. Important information shouldn’t be buried in chat logs. And discord’s forum feature was an idea they tacked on and is a poor substitute for the real thing.

    • Kushan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      10 months ago

      The barrier to entry for IRC is very high for non technical users. It’s also archaic, has little to no customisation and can be difficult to moderate at high volumes.

      I’m not defending discord here, but the IRC comparisons are silly.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      41·
      10 months ago

      I am guessing they advertised the right time in the right place. I agree, it’s absolute trash