• BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Of course, now it’s even worse because all of the discussion is happening is some shitty closed IM service instead of a regular openly readable and searchable forum.

    • RockBottom@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Well, maybe it’s better that way. We can consider it again once the internet is not used commercially anymore.

      • BartyDeCanter@piefed.socialEnglish
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        5 days ago

        Except that it’s now harder to find a question answered from an actual person, because you have to join their Discord server, deal with the annoying pops in the ui, deal with a mostly broken search system that can’t find a discussion by topic since it’s just a chat log, and then either have your question either be missed in the conversation because it was asked at the wrong time and the person who knows it was asleep and now it’s scrolled into history or not get answered because they are tired of answering the same questions over and over again since no one can find when it was answered two days ago.

        Meanwhile, I can go to an almost thirty year old forum and find that my question was answered in 1998, with nice updates in 2005 and a follow on in 2016.

        Or I can ask AI.

        I definitely have a ranked preference for those options and is sure as hell isn’t dealing with fucking Discord.