[LordDragonfang]

Yeah, one of the "worst" (good for metrics, bad for legibility) parts of the trend of moving to discord for any sort of online community is that you have to "join" the community to even view any of the resources ensconced within. Meaning it's poorly indexed (discord search is okay, but not great) and not available at all to external crawlers.

[throwaway290]

If this community was available for crawling then LLM would crawl it and there would be no value in participating in the community because you can just ask the LLM about all that, no?

[LordDragonfang]

If the value your community provides is low enough that it can be effectively replaced by a general purpose LLM, then it should be. The value of a community should be pushing the boundaries of knowledge, not gatekeeping it.

C'mon, this is hacker news, what happened to "information should be free"?

[BeFlatXIII]

> C'mon, this is hacker news, what happened to "information should be free"?

We've had an infestation of "pay me or I won't share" types.

[throwaway290]

More like an infestation of "open = I must be able to exploit and abuse for profit" entitled SV VC types.

[throwaway290]

"Information should be free" doesn't work when you have Microsoft inserting itself as a middleman of information.

The community is not gatekeeping knowledge, anyone can join. It merely tries to keep certain corporations out...