As someone who has searched hard, there is no high quality replacement.

I agree with the others, you sound like the type of person that the emergency fund is designed for.

Just like every other job you bring it up to the IT department and work around it.

If I know the community exists, I can narrow the search on Google

Doesn’t work most of the time for my communities.

And if the community I’m looking for is regarding something I’m working on, I’m not putting discord on my work laptop, so shit outta luck

Sounds like a personal problem you don’t want to work around.

One tries to be a flexible, interoperable, and secure protocol for communication, that’s free for anyone to implement and use…

The other is a for-profit company that cherishes its centralized nature and far reaching control, allowing them to sell you random bells and whistles, collect your data unobstructed, and lure in investors and advertisers.

Barely anyone cares about any of this. This stuff will never outweigh the features and QoL Discord has over everything else.

Ah yes let me switch to a chatting app that is missing half the features from discord with a worse UI. Epic!

I don’t think you understand how terrible search engines are for niche communities. I’d bet most lemmy posts don’t show up. You’re far better off just joining the community and doing a search within discord than wasting your time scraping through bad search results.

Wow another discord bad thread. Daring today aren’t we?

The real credit goes to the heroin addict that smashed his head through this fence to setup the perfect frame for the photographer. Never change Seattle o7

It was for me

Assuming you used the search feature on discord and no results came up, then you would be the first person to have ever asked that specific question to the developer. What makes you think that would actually be on a readme?

What even is “relevancy”? Their search is just a search by matching keywords. There isn’t a magic algorithm discord uses. Every time I had an issue with some sort of bug or function I just search for specific keywords and 9/10 times I find something. On the odd-chance I don’t then I’ll behave like a human being and ask. I just don’t get what’s wrong with that? You can already limit those keyword searches with specific constraints so you don’t get much noise.

There are issues of course. I’m just of the view that answering questions and giving support to a project is perfectly fine on discord because of incredibly fast response times.

As a developer you really only have bandwidth for maybe one or two methods of communication until you get stretched far too thin. Discord combines threads and irc chats into one. That is incredibly productive from a support standpoint.

To me this is nothing different than asking someone to join an irc server for technical help. Most of the irc servers I followed no longer exist but the projects are still fine and they’ve managed. If anything it’s better because you actually have a search feature.

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Never happened to me once but I understand if you don’t want to use it for that reason

Of all the counterpoints you can give me against discord not being simple, you choose file size. Lmao. I’m not even gonna start

Skill issue

Having used both, if you can somehow navigate a phbb board then you can easily navigate discord. The only thing stopping you is you.

You don’t see its incredible simplicity as an advantage? That’s crazy

Ah yes first world problems. The issue here is checks notes refusal to create a discord account on a burner email and use a search bar. Omg so scary