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[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Discord requires an account to even view a server, and the layout for forum support style questions is not there.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The same could be said of Matrix though, I don't think you can see a Matrix chat without an account either. Discord does have a forum layout... ish. It is pretty bad though and not something we use as a forum. It is used but really only as a way to separate topics in what would be a busy single chat area - more akin to something like Zulip. Even IRC channels tend to need you to connect with a nickname but unlike the others you can't see chat history without a bouncer set up and at that point you have basically made an account in all but name.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah matrix is even worse than discord for usability and finding things.

Just use a normal publicly readable and indexed forum like has been common for the last 30+ years, I don't understand the obsession with chat clients for this purpose.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know IRC has been used alongside mailing list for open source software communities and projects for literally decades right?

[–] Strykker@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But not in place of, no one is trying to say no chat clients ever, we just don't want only chat clients.

[–] Daeraxa@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

But... that is exactly what I've been saying since the start... If used correctly there is no need to instantly reject a project just because it uses Discord, or any other chat, as one of its options.

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