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Revisiting PUBG on pc again. I really miss proximity chat being enabled by default and being able to talk to people in the spawn room. Along with the broken car physics I feel like the game lost its soul when those two things were removed.

Harris dislikes:

Lack of action against a genocide we are funding

Changes her stance a lot

Was chosen as VP based partially on gender by Biden

Trump likes:

Extremely fucking funny for the wrong reasons

I like his views on promoting legal immigration

He’s right about mainstream media having agendas, especially after Bernie

And yet vast majority of their population had him at over 90% approval and thought everything he did was necessary to maintain order.

There’s already far more trauma, and even more to be inflicted if he didn’t go all out against gangs. If you aren’t from that area or other similarly dangerous country you wouldn’t really get how desperate it gets. He 100% was necessary.

They’re no longer the murder capital of the world and safer than even Canada. Women can actually walk outside and children can play.

It’s harsh, but El Salvador did what was necessary to fix their problem. They saved countless men, women, and children both inside and outside their country from monsters walking in human skin.

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Based

My uncle died during a pilgrimage from a heart attack (he had prior health issues), you get buried there ideally.

Your neckbeard, fedora, and trench coat are ready for you good sir.

You know that doesn’t justify your cold hearted comment right?

I hope you have the joy of knowing you said this when you see a pic of a starving child in Palestine.

I agree with the others, you sound like the type of person that the emergency fund is designed for.

Nah gonna keep using discord since it’s the best. No amount of daily discord bad threads will stop me.

I mean I have compared it and bots are still relentless on forums.

Is there any guarantee that they won’t?

Ridiculous argument. There are no guarantees in this world besides death. Your favorite website can and will eventually go down yet that doesn’t mean I won’t use something even though I know it’s temporary.

I don’t know the exotic logic you rely on. But I can search forum posts from Google or DuckDuckGo without ever registering

There are forums that hide their built-in search feature for registered users only because it causes too much to run those queries for unregistered users.

You are attacking a strawman. The target you choose to prove your point is Reddit? The company that screwed its entire userbase in order to cut off their competitors from data access - which is the reason why they don’t work well with searches? People don’t like Discord for the same reasons as Reddit. Both are silos meant to lock users in.

I used Reddit as an example to show how bad google searches are yes. Your attempt at whataboutism is not appreciated. Good try.

This is laughably inaccurate. So, you’re just making up facts now? I do web searches on technical problems and search engines perform very well. Your claim doesn’t stand up in an actual test.

I mean we’re both using personal anecdotes. I’m giving you a perspective where it is not the case. Hard to digest, I know. And yes I stand by using Stack Overflow’s search instead of relying on Google for example. You don’t get terrible bloated results plagued by ads and clickbait. You’re quite literally wasting your time using search engines.

There is a reason why Discord is not searchable online - it’s a silo by design

I don’t think you understand how expensive it is to keep websites available to be indexed by search engines. The sheer amount of bot traffic making large volumes of requests makes running things much more expensive than they need to be especially if your product is free and without ads. Sure it’s a silo by design but that lack of public availability is what makes it cheap to run with the extra features I get to enjoy.

Even if you have reasons to believe that the current management has no reasons to do so, they will get acquired by someone else lacking the same sensibilities. You should be completely blind to not see this play out again and again and again

Yes and I literally don’t care. It’s the best platform for the role it fills currently and I’ll simply move on to the next thing just like everything else in life. I’ll keep enjoying it like I have for the past 8 years and not cry about it.

You’re making up nonsense again. May be it’s not important to you. But they are important to FOSS projects and their users.

All you have to do is ask around in the community everyone migrates to and that’s it. It’s a tiny annoyance and that’s genuinely my perspective. You get bothered by it sure, but I legitimately don’t care if Discord sped up development for most of the projects lifespan.

The statistics of this entire discussion doesn’t agree with your statement. But let’s forget that for now. You’re not crying about making an account or stability of the platform because you’re foolish enough to believe in those. You don’t have the insight required to observe what’s happening all around you. I can’t wait for the day to come back and say ‘I told you so’. Because it will happen. Nowhere in history has it happened in any other way.

By the way I already know it will happen but you are projecting some caricature in your mind onto me. Do yourself a favor and don’t respond.

It’s been 8 years and they’ve done nothing and still haven’t. The criticism that you have to make an account to use a search feature which many forums already do makes no sense. My uploads from the day discord released are still there.

There were many times I couldn’t find a Reddit thread using a web search whereas I could immediately find it using reddits built-in search. Most of the search engines aren’t actually that good because there is too much noise in most web browser results these days.

If you know the exact website or app where the discourse for your topic is happening then 99% of the time you have far better results just using that websites built in search instead of the trash results modern browsers give you.

May I remind you that situation you’re describing already happened countless times since the days of free forum boards and irc channels going down. Yet we’ve always managed to keep things going. Things shutting down and information needing to be found again is not a big deal.

If anything I’ve seen more information lost by people hosting things themselves than the 8 years discord has kept things running smooth. So many niche communities on public forums, irc channels, etc, all self hosted and gone. Yes I and most of the world are willing to not cry about making an account for that guaranteed stability.

I follow a niche community and the recent bans for their board is all spam bots even in 2024. I don’t want to put up with that nonsense and discord actively tries to curb that so the choice is easy.

Discord has a search feature 🤦you still don’t have to interact with anyone…

That’s quite a blanket statement when things like Steam exist.