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0 pointsJach4y ago0 comments

Power-tripping mods aren't anything new.

My main beef with Discord servers turning into this decade's forums is a lot of useful info is locked up and not discoverable by search engines.

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city414y ago· 7 in thread

I reluctantly accepted a Discord server for my project as my users demanded it. Now the people who help out on the project do so in Discord and I hate it. I have to constantly copy the info into a Github issue or discussion otherwise it's pretty much impossible to find again as it scrolls up. There's also a ton of noise in between the contributing comments. I think I'm going to push back and leave the Discord server and tell people to please use Github instead for contributions.

loo4y ago

You probably have more people contributing on Discord than you'd have just on Github. Maybe 2, 3 or more times as many.

Discord tends to be social in a way Github is not, with lower friction to contribute. And perhaps even a better asynchronous model.

I don't discount your frustrations. Maybe a bot that can create GH issues from Discord would help. With rights to use it spread liberally around the community.

Tell people you need help getting data into Github, give them a bot so they don't have to context switch, and they'll probably surprise you.

city414y ago

You're probably right on the increased contributions. It's definitely a case of pros and cons. I'll look into bots, that's a good idea.

JoshTriplett4y ago

> Now the people who help out on the project do so in Discord and I hate it. I have to constantly copy the info into a Github issue or discussion otherwise it's pretty much impossible to find again as it scrolls up. There's also a ton of noise in between the contributing comments.

This is one of the reasons I prefer Zulip to Discord. You get more organization by default, with all conversations happening in threads with subjects, and a tendency to create new threads for new topics. I can actually find information in conversations long afterwards, and cross-link to useful Zulip threads from GitHub or elsewhere.

alya4y ago

We host the full version of Zulip for free for open-source projects. :) https://zulip.com/for/open-source/

wintermutestwin4y ago

To me, Github is a code repository and Discord is synchronous chat. I personally find both Github and Discord to be much harder platforms to extract information and ask questions than wikis, fourms and subreddits.

theshrike794y ago

I'm a 100% sure you can find at least 42 Discord bots that can create and update relevant GitHub issues directly.

theelous34y ago

just copy a link to the discussion and add a pr template that grants a blanket read only invite

nullwarp4y ago

> My main beef with Discord servers turning into this decade's forums is a lot of useful info is locked up and not discoverable by search engines.

This to me is by far the worst part of Discord. I'm in a few game mod specific Discord's and there is tons of info in them, but it's so hard to find and get to it might as well not even exist.

agumonkey4y ago

People keep saying this but even on my worst IRC days I've never encountered that much petty-kingdom feeling. Maybe freenode was its own bubble I don't know. On IRC there's this vibe that you don't own anything. You just joined a room first, or someone gave you mod capabilities but it was very freeform in nature.

jeffchien4y ago

Not sure about tech, but for pop culture like games, I blame that partially on Wikia/Fandom. I would not wish the horror of scrolling through Wikia websites on a phone upon my worst enemies. It's a lot easier to write and view useful information in Discord.

vbezhenar4y ago

Can you use a bot to extract conversations into external website?

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