person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:

  1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, “wow a cool software. let’s check out the community”
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    Community
    The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

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  4. person looking behind with the text “nevermind”.
  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Depends on what exact type of app you want, but as one example of something that can mostly replace discord and do a far better job-- Slack. There was an app in the early 2000’s for gaming voice chat which I thought worked far better too. It was called something like “Roger Wilco” I think. The only similar apps I’ve used which are obviously worse than discord? Teams, and once MS bought it, Skype.

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      10 months ago

      Man Skype used to be so good when it was peer to peer… I don’t see anything that MS brought to that platform that improved it at all.

      I hate Slack Overflow (using Slack as documentation) but it beats the pants off of Discord Overflow.

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      10 months ago

      ah yes slack the app that won’t let you voice chat in groups or store chat history unless you pay $7 per user per month. I’m honestly amazed how they’ve been getting away with it this long when discord exists

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        won’t let you voice chat in groups

        Weird, I guess I have been imagining doing that at work for the past couple of years. I do understand though, when you’re used to apps like discord, you forget it’s possible to not only gain new useful features, but have them actually work.

        Slack’s pricing logic makes perfect sense to me there. It’s free and works for a large number of users, but the ones who actually need chat history probably can/should pay for it.

        I’m honestly amazed how they’ve been getting away with it this long when discord exists

        Yeah it’s totally crazy that an app can be considered good enough that many thousands of businesses find it worth paying for. I mean why isn’t every business using free Gmail accounts? Or for similar shittiness in the UI department, why isn’t everyone using Hotmail?

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          I was pretty clearly only complaining about the features offered by their free tier, which I just checked does still not let you voice chat with three or more people or search chat history. (The chat history issue is more significant by far).

          And yes $7 per user per month is not reasonable for an open source project with a few hundred members that doesn’t have a budget, especially compared to discord that gives you unlimited chat history for free. All the open source projects I know that use chat use either matrix or discord.

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            9 months ago

            “I paid for nothing, I don’t I get everything? This janky shitty free app gives it to me!”

            They give it for free to nonprofits. Anything else for the confidently incorrect movement today?

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      10 months ago

      Slack got sacked in my circles when they removed the ability to view messages older than 30 days…

      The UI in discord isn’t great, but it works, and it’s free.