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Discord is where the creative energy is right now, for better or for worse.

• nextos 3y ago
  I disagree. Lots of communities, e.g. Julia or Stan, use https://www.discourse.org https://www.discourse.org. Discourse is GPL2 and emulates old Internet forums.
  • lproven 3y ago
    > emulates old Internet forums. Extremely poorly. I am on 2 or 3 instances, and I cordially loathe it. Compared to mailing lists, it's a grotesquely over-complicated mess. To make a comparison with text editors: Discourse for a mailing list user is like telling a skilled expert in Vim or Emacs... "Now, to join our community, all you have to do is install a Windows 11 VM and use MS Word 365 for all your editing! Some new users prefer the toolbar. It does all the stuff you're used to and like, but it has a cool new UI! It's great! We all love it and we are sure you will too! We looked at your old system and we have made sure we've included all the old functionality! You can move the cursor left, right, up and down, but now, you can also use an animated GIF or PNG as your cursor and have a choice of colours!"
    • r-w 3y ago
      To quote a sibling comment to yours: > Try it and you'll get a bunch of people complaining that inline images are bloat and who needed an auth system anyway and why can't I use my IRC client from 1996 and your client wasn't supposed to use my RAM, I'm saving that for guests.
      • lmm 3y ago
        Nah, I wrote that and Discourse is the worst of both worlds, it's somehow even less usable than old-style forums. I don't exactly love e.g. XenForo but it's better than Discourse in every way.
    • WillAdams 3y ago
      Browser support is extremely limited --- I couldn't find a browser which would allow selecting text with a stylus rather than scroll in Windows 11 (there are still a couple) which would also work with Discourse when I was looking such a thing.