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minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoIf you use Discord as a forum for your project/game/whatever, this is the perfect time to stop doing that. Seriously. Just install Discourse, or a commercial product such as XenForo (they have a pay-once self-hosted option), or even phpBB. We need project forums to be discoverable, easy to access, not tied to a commercial platform.
minus-squarefakeman_pretendname@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-24 months agoDiscord is shit as a forum anyway - it’s a chat room. It was a lot easier to find answers or reply to questions on phpbb forums.
If you use Discord as a forum for your project/game/whatever, this is the perfect time to stop doing that. Seriously.
Just install Discourse, or a commercial product such as XenForo (they have a pay-once self-hosted option), or even phpBB.
We need project forums to be discoverable, easy to access, not tied to a commercial platform.
Discord is shit as a forum anyway - it’s a chat room.
It was a lot easier to find answers or reply to questions on phpbb forums.