It’s been a long couple of years with people going hard on building all their communications on the gamer chat company, disregarding all warnings and concerns because of shiny creature comforts

Soon: “we trusted you! We moved from slack to you! 😭”

Guess it’s only a handful of months before the tortured handwringing starts?

  • Mii
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    178 months ago

    Kinda off-topic, but I legitimately don’t understand why people use Discord as a discussion platform. It’s fine as a voice chat tool, but why on earth would you want your community posts on there?

    It’s not indexable and therefore not searchable by non-members; the content is on a remote server and they reserve the right to delete it any point; it’s a nightmare to backup; and the client itself is a fucking slap in the face in terms of accessibility. They only recently introduced colorblind-friendly modes, and they actually removed the option to choose a dyslexia-friendly font, while their standard font is fucking atrocious.

    There’s really absolutely no reason why you would ever use a service like Discord over a discussion forum, and yet people do that more and more and I find it completely baffling.

    • @Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      Kinda off-topic, but I legitimately don’t understand why people use Discord as a discussion platform. It’s fine as a voice chat tool, but why on earth would you want your community posts on there?

      Because people already have it installed. And most of the other gaming chat tools suck (Revolt isn’t bad, but, you cannot use that as a content creator at the same time as discord, as discord for some weird reason recognizes that as the game Re-Volt, a 1999 game (so streaming etc via discord fails) and oddly doesn’t seem to want to update this (I’m not saying it is intentional behaviour of making life harder for the competition, but it is making it intentionally harder for the competition).

      And for the rest, it just is easier, and maintaining both a discord, a forum a reddit, a wiki etc etc is a fulltime task.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Both Suyu and Sudachi began as forks of Yuzu, the emulator that Nintendo sued out of existence on March 4th.

    Developers of Yuzu’s forks also claimed they were changing the code further, among other practices, in an effort to avoid pissing Nintendo off.

    But it’s possible that people were sharing Nintendo’s cryptographic keys, firmware, or even entire pirated games in these servers despite those commitments.

    Even if Suyu and Sudachi were infringing, Discord’s policy does not suggest it would permaban, much less nuke entire servers, on the first offense.

    Discord did not answer questions about whether these users were repeat copyright infringers, had received any previous warnings, or were forwarded any takedown requests.

    Nintendo isn’t just targeting Switch emulators with its latest round of takedowns but also some of the tools that aid them: it sent DMCA takedown requests to GitHub to remove 27 forks of the Sigpatch Updater, as well as Lockpick_RCM, kezplez-nx, and Incognito_RCM, which help Switch owners and developers obtain encryption keys.


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