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    ditch discord! (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    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".
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    [–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    It's your proposed solution that's the problem. The answer isn't to make Discord public, it's to convince people to move off of it, and quite honestly, if you want people to leave Discord so badly, you'd be better off setting up separate public forums for the open source projects you are interested in on your own and convincing/bribing respected members of the Discord to post there, or copy/paste technical info there.

    I feel the same way about Lemmy so I sympathize with you, honestly.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    The answer isn't to make Discord public

    You're absolutely right. Aside from me not caring at all what happens to discord, my explanation points out that even having IRC chat logs public doesn't surface solutions in search engines, because chat isn't good for that.

    It sounds like you really misunderstood what I was saying. Public software that values community as a long lasting place for users to find solutions should not be promoting chat for those end-user facing discussions, they should be promoting forums.

    Plus the original meme isn't saying anything related to making discord publicly searchable, it's saying "fuck discord, I'd rather not use that software than use discord."