Need everyone that stupidly hosts video game resources on discord to immediately stop doing that - ThreadSky

envinyon.bsky.social • 61 days ago

Need everyone that stupidly hosts video game resources on discord to immediately stop doing that

Reposted from Zach Bussey 🍁

Discord is reportedly in early talks for a potential IPO.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

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nofoxtugiv.bsky.social•60 days ago

Dropping Nitro, that’s for sure.

oculin.bsky.social•60 days ago

I run a community that sometimes does some casual research in Discord. I do worry about those smaller findings getting lost. Have you seen any systems set up that help prevent these discussions that include research from falling into the cracks?

lasthazzerd.bsky.social•61 days ago

this walled guardan of un-searchable FAQs and resources has ruined a lot of information preservation.
and Fandom has made sure to ruin game wikis.

chums.yorha.vip•61 days ago

the problem with that is no one wants to then host a website and go back to forum posting after the ease and convenience of discord, I'm all for not putting resources on it but people are just gonna not do it if it isnt convenient

envinyon.bsky.social•60 days ago

I agree, I just mean that local backups are probably ideal for the moment until something better can be found

chums.yorha.vip•60 days ago

yeah but how easy is it to back up discord info for a server, even more so one you don't own

envinyon.bsky.social•60 days ago

I mean obviously if you don't own the server, there's not much you can do

I'm addressing the people that are the ones using it

apolloceleris.bsky.social•60 days ago

Exactly this. Forums are great, but nobody's gonna use them if it means they have to host their own site or create a new account of every community

cherr.im•61 days ago

don't worry, they'll just start hosting them on the next chat platform that pops up to replace discord once the enshittification begins 🌸

elvenmonk.bsky.social•61 days ago

Sadly this is the truth. People are already looking for discord alternatives

ndm.raccoon.codes•60 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ndm.raccoon.codes/post/3lgtpgsxxhs2i

envinyon.bsky.social•61 days ago

The Balance in particular

Put all those spreadsheets on your actual site assholes

wondershades.bsky.social•61 days ago

You WILL trudge through literal years of text logs to get incomplete SAM guides and YOU’LL LIKE IT!

ultimatetrainer.bsky.social•61 days ago

The balance has an actual site https://www.thebalanceffxiv.com/ but they're sooo bad at updating it tbh

mirateski.bsky.social•60 days ago

But if they put the spreadsheets on the website how will they keep getting patreon money over promising to put the spreadsheets on the website???

the-enigma-files.com•61 days ago

The Balance is egregious about this especially, yeah.

I don't even know why they rely on Discord so heavily. Searching through all the different chats just to find what you need is harder than it reasonably should be.

novasoal.bsky.social•61 days ago

I can't wait for discord to ipo and dump everything over a few years old to save on storage or some shit and just torch the library of Alexandria for video game patches & mods & guides

cleffei.bsky.social•60 days ago

I love going to websites that have actual site elements hosted on discord and all you see is alt text lol

cryptictx55.bsky.social•61 days ago

Discord works for asking a specific random question with a 50/50 shot of "someone is nice and gives you the answer" or "someone calls you an idiot"

vultumast.bsky.social•59 days ago

What does this mean in crayon eating terms

gyldaria.bsky.social•61 days ago

if they go public i’m out day one. there are alternatives and i know what going public does to a good thing.

Get your shit off of discord NOW!!!

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