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    [–] rainerloeten 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Speaks to the fact that we apparently need better and new alternatives or make current tools easier to use.

    Certain aspects of discord seem to resonate with people (unfortunately...).

    Man pages are great as mentioned, but maybe not as accessible to some people. Are there tools to generate more convenient resources (e.g. wikis) from that? Similar to how generating technical documentations from (structured) code comments.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

    A discord server with absurd amounts of over emphasised text, making nothing stand out, filled with emojis and broken up into different messages and sections at the exactly worst places for legibility.

    No messages are answered in any channel, and you get amazing sense of all of the technology we have to communicate but zero ability to use it.

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

    Not sure if everyone here knows the difference between documentation and discussion.

    [–] Nikki 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    using discord for documentation is like using excel for a database

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    This was/is my main gripe with Beyond All Reason (open source rts game) there is no wiki or forums - for an outsider it looks like 98% of all development talk is done in discord.

    Though they do have a good basic knowledge base on their website about the game units and mechanics (but I would love dedicated wiki).

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    [–] taanegl 12 points 9 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    It's not my favorite option. But at least use Discourse.

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