[dcchambers]

Discord is a cancer on the open internet anyway.

Real time chat? Great. But entire communities, forums, and wikis moving behind the locked walled of Discord has been a disaster for information discovery.

Don't replace Discord with a similar alternative. Return to open forums and wikis!

[ronsor]

The problem is forum UX on mobile is mediocre, and people have to create an account for each forum. Most people are using mobile devices now, like it or not, so convenience of rich text chat wins out.

[ntoskrnl_exe]

You have a point, I've seen a fair share of Github projects where they asked you to join their Discord if you wanted documentation/support/tips etc.

[fullshark]

These communities don't owe the world their information, and attention/adverisement economics destroyed the open internet on its own.

[CamperBob2]

So they "owe it" to Discord. Got it.

[fullshark]

That's not what I said or implied.

[CamperBob2]

But that's the effect. Either Discord gets to lock the information away (even if it currently chooses to leave the gate unlocked), or it's available to anyone who does a web search.

[jacquesm]

Yes. And likewise for all those other walled gardens. I shouldn't need a Facebook or a Twitter account to read what some politician wrote.

[bsza]

I would have agreed 5 years ago, but not this day and age, when AI is raping open source projects and killing platforms like Stack Overflow.

We need a safe space from web crawlers and surveillance, and open forums ain't it. (Neither is Discord, but a sufficiently secure alternative might be.)

[m4rtink]

Do you really think Discord is not scrapping all the traffic that goes through its service for either their own purposes or to sell data for profit.

And if its not doing it now, it will certainly happen once/if it goes bust.

[bsza]

Have you read my comment?

[SpaceManNabs]

AI is what??

[bsza]

https://www.pcmag.com/news/godot-game-engine-is-drowning-in-...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/overrun-with-ai-slo...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Human-In-The-Loop

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...

Just off the top of my head, I bet a lot of other repos are going through the same.

[SpaceManNabs]

why use that specific word though?

[kbelder]

Don't be surprised or shocked to encounter metaphors and hyperbole as you read. It's part of standard English communication.

[SpaceManNabs]

I haven't heard that word used as a metaphor or hyperbole since I stopped playing on call of duty in 2014...

Weird that the hacker news community wants to stick to it. Yall need to grow up. Because I know you would not use it as a metaphor or hyperbole at work.

Defending it makes you look immature.