I know there's nothing original about that but God damn I hate that a chat platform somehow became used to transfer info... We're overdue for a forum Renaissance.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 122 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Join our discord server!
Give this server your home address, date of birth and mother's maiden name?
Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3
Please download this third party extension verify that you're not ban evading
Give this third party extension your home address, date of birth, mother's maiden name and unobstructed pictures of your taint from several angles?
You've been verified!
Sending messages is for donors only :3
Notifications for every channel is on by default. I hope your speakers aren't loud, pisshead
Every channel is just a moderator with an amphetamine problem writing a new manifesto every 15 minutes

[–] n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

You dont want my credit card? Where do I sign up?

[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

You got a point

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Forgot to mention that you have to give them your phone number. That one really pisses me off.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Forgot the part where you are sometimes FORCED to join some discord server, be it for downloading a mod just one time or troubleshoot something else. And then sometimes comes the part you listed.

[–] QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works -1 points 6 months ago

Discord got problems... but none of those things I've encountered. Save for the

Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3

And are you really going to complain about being shown the rules of the place before use? You got a point on notifications too but that's it. Annoying, but easy to deal with (right click server, disable notifications, boom done that's it.)

The other shit I could be easily convinced you're straight up making up.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Didn't we use things like irc in the past?

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that's still where serious people go to talk about their field. Want a custom ROM for your phone? You're going on a forum. Want to know how to repair a specific thing on a car? You're going on a forum. Want to talk about your new patchwork passion? You're going on a forum.

But somehow there's some fields (crypto, some parts of gaming...) where people have forgotten that or simply have never spent time on forums to see the difference in quality of info having an ongoing discussion makes.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures....

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

That's an issue with the cost of storage back then meaning that people needed external hosts, but these days if Reddit and Lemmy can self host then an equivalent forum could do it too.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

You aren't "archiving" shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run

Which leave "dark web" sites that very much do exist but don't get linked in news articles

[–] seathru@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

And Usenet before that.