On 2020/12/02 10:07, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 02/12/2020 18.54, Maurizio Galli wrote:
Keep in mind that we have developers and packagers who may be involved with Discord watching this list.
I'm absolutely sure that it is a fine tool, I have no doubts about it.
--- Discord supports its name. I used it for 2-3 years by requirement in line with a game I was playing. It is an ideal environment to support personal _ir_responsibility and create multiple fiefdoms/cliques where each forum owner gets to decide on a regular basis what you are allowed to say and ensure that any "history" is edited and updated to reflect their view. If you join one of their forums (called a 'server') the first thing you may note is you have no way to keep a record of what you wrote and what you were responding to, other than by making a screen shot of each page of conversation. There is no logging option and forum owners can selectively delete content from any channel in their forum (server). Also, anyone can go back and edit any post they've ever made and selectively delete posts counter to the picture you want to create. I went through situations where agreements that were made, later were updated so original agreements disappeared, or were slanted to create a different view. If you lose access to a "forum", you very often lose the ability to communicate to anyone else on that forum unless you were friends with them before you joined that forum. Communication is often restricted so that you cannot send a message to someone who doesn't share a forum with you or hasn't specified you as a friend. Thing is, if you are on a group forum for months or years, you meet lots of people. You have little reason to selectively add all those people as 'friends' as it give you no extra communication options -- you can send private messages to anyone who is on a forum that you are also a member of. But if you leave a forum -- often you are removed from access, and you no longer can send messages of any sort to those you used to talk to if that forum was your only common-point with them. So in the game I played, you had clans -- and nearly all clans required you to also sign up for their discord as it would be used for all clan activities. It actually comes across a bit odd if someone additionally sends a friend request because if you share a forum with them, it gives you no further communication options. While it discord supplies the ability to coordinate people on different schedules, it's not like email where you have a record of what was sent to you or what you said. Also lacking is a good search interface -- it has searching, but it really lacks flexibility. In addition to text, pictures and media being supported 'inline', some channels are voice channels where everyone is talking in the same group (not bad for multi-user games where you coordinate group activities online). But the ability to edit history and posts, and the lack of any logging feature, as well as defaults that tend to make it easy to "shun" or "ghost" people you don't like anymore, make it a poor platform for doing anything' meaningful. Posts like this one composed of multiple paragraphs are considered a "wall of text", and the platform itself forces you to break apart longer posts into a series of 1.5-2K chunks. So it isn't really meant for anything other than fluff.
But its choice of name is enough to deter me from trying. I can not say the name choice as idiotic, because you will censorship me.
--- Simple rule to go by -- stick to facts and don't use adjectives.
The name suggests to me a place where arguments take place constantly. Is that better choice of words?
--- Yeah, such was often the case.