I’m not sure if you are referring to the same thread.
I’m talking about the effort to build multi region and multi cloud applications, which is incredibly difficult to pull off well. And presents seemingly endless challenges.
Not the effort to move to the cloud.
Screw the compute budget, the tripled team size without shipping any more features is a bigger problem here.
FR. The (actually user ran) NSFW subreddits are so much better than any other aggregator
Yeah, and for every dozen hours spent on building a “shitty discord” that’s a dozen hours not spent building the game.
And then there’s the high friction. Now people need to sign up for your special website, sign up for your special chat, add another app to their phone if you even provide one…etc When 9/10 of those same people already have a Discord account and are already active on Discord.
You don’t appear to understand what friction means. Because using an established platform that the majority of your community already uses isn’t high friction…
It doesn’t matter what the platform is. You bring yourself to the platform your users use. It just so happens that at this point in time it is Discord and this wasn’t always the case and it won’t always be the case.
You keep talking about how you don’t want to join to find out information how you don’t want to chat about the game.
Okay. That’s fine, that’s your choice, Why are you trying to shove your choice down other people’s throat then, you don’t have to join, you don’t have to talk about the game. It’s not required.
Yep, it’s a practical choice that improves the quality of their work and their community engagement by promoting rapid feedback cycles.
BTW how’d you stumble upon the Indi game?
The thing that I suck at the most is advertised out what I’m making, and it’s hurt me, a lot…
Still linear time at least, could always be much MUCH worse
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It is literally the worst forum platform in existence. For q&A and support, it’s effectively a black hole for information and not only that, it’s a black hole for effort since people will just ask the same bloody questions day in and day out as the information already on Discord becomes unavailable over time
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However, It becomes difficult when you use Discord as a place for your community to chat and to talk with and get feedback from highly engaged players or community members who have things to say about your game and want to talk with each other about the game. You could say that any old form will do here. However, you go to where your community is, you don’t make your community come to you. That only works if you are a bombshell of a title, otherwise, your bounce rate for community members joining and talking and engaging is going to be incredibly high which reduces the chances of your game becoming successful.
You’re talking about a place for suggestions and help which can be driven to something like discourse. Which is a platform specifically made for q&A. But it is not well suited for the type of interaction you would expect in a Discord server. It’s not providing the controls and integration that Discord provides, nor is it providing voice chat capabilities and cross interaction.
Discord as much as we all hate it. For the enshitification. is a well-established high population low friction platform for community engagement.
And one of the number one rules when it comes to community engagement is that you go to where your community has the least amount of friction. They don’t come to you.
If that was a community that preferentially used IRC then the developer should preferentially use IRC. Unfortunately, target gaming audiences preferentially use Discord and are already familiar with the platform. Anything else is adding friction that reduces community growth.
These are the facts of the matter. I’m not saying these in support of Discord. It’s kind of a shitty situation
Eh, it’s entirely logical.
Let me explain:
This makes perfect sense. I don’t see why you should be outraged about something of this sort.
That said:
If you don’t want to join the Discord, you don’t have to.
But I wasn’t facility. I was a student.
The dorm itself did not have internet and had no plans of running ethernet or providing internet to students.
I got internet through a wireless access point, positioned very carefully in window for a WISP. And they distributed that to rooms near me.
It’s old magic too and in a pinch it works reasonably well.
We use this as a networking option for an old dorm I was in which didn’t have ethernet and the concrete walls between rooms made Wi-Fi unusable.
Blocks of rooms were not separated on different circuits which made this possible
Yes, typescript is my favorite language. There’s literally no other language out there that is as expressive and has as strong of a type system as typescript. It is the master of making impossible states unrepresentable through meta programming. Being able to move domain complexity into the type system instead of into the runtime is some of the best ways you can reduce your runtime complexity and defects.
Though .net is my favorite ecosystem, by far. It’s first party frameworks are unmatched in performance and developer experience. And its ecosystem is incredibly stable, unlike JavaScript. C# Is unfortunately a much less capable language from a type perspective than typescript though.
If C# got discriminated unions and strings as first class type citizens that would launch it pretty far.
Encryption isn’t magically broken because a legislature says it is.
They have to apply teeth to a market they control. Not everything is within their control. Though, signal is.
Not exactly ideal archival software…
It doesn’t store files in a human readable way and requires a separate DB and application to interpret your stored data. Without controls over how it stores that data.
I just set the desktop app up a week ago on a new computer. I am most definitely not mistaken.
Yeah but the local backups suck because you have no control over their retention period, And it forces you to create a new one everyday. Which if you have a large signal history, can wipe your phones storage in just a few days.
Yeah, the current backups are pretty dumb in the sense that it writes a new file everyday and you have no control over retention, history or deletion.
I just want to be able to backup all my media history and chat in a securely encrypted file to a location of my choosing with a retention period of my choosing.
Except it won’t. The desktop app specifically states that it will not transfer history when you activate it…
There’s a big difference between desktop environment needs and headless server needs.
Anything with user interaction will require an enormous number of additional services, which consumes resources.
I expect to run simple headless software on 256-512 MB of RAM. For example.
Not to mention the fact that the grand majority of federalized services have extremely unsustainable performance characteristics that make them effectively impossible to scale from hobby projects