God I hate that shit, website, forum, subreddit, anything I don't have to log into is fine by me. I don't want to be part of a random community, and be at the whims of discord.
needing to do some tech thing in 2011: *google it* *get an answer* *do it*
some tech thing in 2025: *google it* *get inaccurate AI textslop* *find a 20 minute youtube tutorial that covers everything but your question* *eventually find a years-old post from 4 versions ago* *cookie warning* *paywall*
some tech thing in 2025, continued: *sign up to a discord* *eighteen captchas, rules pages and bot tests* *figure out which of the 26 channels has someone in it that will respond to your question* *nobody knows anything but will call you a dumbass for asking*
sometimes you gotta get 100% in lego marvel avengers, then you gotta hit the whip and nae-nae, then you gotta walk 3 steps right, 2 steps down, 9 spins clockwise, 9 more counter-cloclwise, then ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️SELECT START 🐕🚼
*go to reddit* *log in* *2FA code* * post your question* *wait three hours* *get a response of "i'm having the same issue, lmk if you find it" and "lol, that app sux, install a new os/get a new computer/buy a new router/use this shitty open source version*
It’s just awful. Reddit is the worst. Any poor bugger asking for information on there is just crushed by a flood of snark seeking fake internet points.
Oh my god I hate Discord "forums" and "documentation" so much. It's so flimsy. All of it will disappear and people in the future will be totally lost + it's a really awful in present time as you described.
I noticed this with game modding the other day. You'd think that as technology got "smarter" things would get easier, but on the contrary, it has gotten more complicated because of how much crap gets crammed into what should be a simple process. https://bsky.app/profile/likoclave.com/post/3lixbsyo3w22j
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I hate it.
some tech thing in 2025: *google it* *get inaccurate AI textslop* *find a 20 minute youtube tutorial that covers everything but your question* *eventually find a years-old post from 4 versions ago* *cookie warning* *paywall*
*discord community is locked behind a verification process and the mods have abandoned the community so nobody new can be verified*
https://bsky.app/profile/likoclave.com/post/3lixbsyo3w22j
I just wanna surf, dude