LFGSS Discord

If on the phone app click back on the top left so you’re at the screen that looks like this. Press ‘LFGSS’ at the top and then select ‘Edit Server Profile’ to update your nickname.

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Cheers I managed this just.

Just registered. It's hard to use* and everything is small*

*I am old

Stand closer.

In. See you there, folks

Browsers have zoom for this.

I literally have no fucking clue what I'm meant to do on there 🤷

Me neither, I’m on there now and having a mooch around. Doesn’t seem a million miles away from what we have on here at a casual glance?
It’s easier to navigate than Reddit or Faceache at least.

Discord is no good as a replacement for this place. To the extent that it works at all, it's for ephemeral chat while people find other people to join a session in a multiplayer game.

I would say just prod around on it, as it's a new server working out it's direction, will work best if people are clicking things and seeing what sticks, it can't really be broken I'd say.

And everyone will at one point click on a Voice Channel not realising it will immediately join them into and empty voice chat.

Discord is no good as a replacement for this place. To the extent that it works at all, it's for ephemeral chat while people find other people to join a session in a multiplayer game.

Whilst I don't disagree, I have the server stats and cache hit stats that show this place was nearly always "stuff posted in the last week", and that very seldom did any person look at stuff older than that. In fact, it happened so seldom that my LRU caches would be empty of that content when a crawler came around, which is why the crawlers impacted us so much. The caches are big, the content just expired out.

Ephemeral chat is the bulk of what people do... though of course it's amazing to search for something and pull up an old thread that answers it perfectly, or to cite a joke from a decade ago, etc... it just wasn't done that often.

I'm sure you'll anecdotally say you do it constantly... that's great, but the vast majority didn't.

OK, have now just seen the relevant thread :(

..sorry if I'm a bit slow, but what thread?

(Why) is this place shutting down soon?

sorry if I'm a bit slow, but what thread?

Pinned to the front page, but https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/

Thanks! 👍

the front page

can't remember when I've last browsed this, my bookmark goes straight to the memes thread 💁‍♂️

Whilst I don't disagree, I have the server stats and cache hit stats that show this place was nearly always "stuff posted in the last week"

Context shapes things, and I'd argue that the existence of the older and wider content shaped the ephemeral chat, but Discord doesn't even scale to the many subforums and threads here. This forum thrived and brought many people in despite a misanthropic core of assholes who even tried to sabotage the compass drinks idea, because they didn't want anybody who wasn't here in 2007 to be involved at all. Discord doesn't scale in a way that gives that much room.

We're not going to give anywhere that's the same as here - we're going to have to change and adapt.
Discord seems to function as a holding space - kind of like an ark - it doesn't have to be the final destination.

Just gone over 500 members.

^ I was wondering how that compares to other servers. 500 in a couple of days seems pretty good

@itsbruce what is your suggested alternative

I am on a very productive and community driven and focused Discord server. For a small radio station. It's great. The UX is different to a forum, yes, but it's fine - it's the links and the community participation that's the constant that keeps the vibe alive.

I recall people having meltdowns about the transition to microcosm and then it was all fine. If we have to go to Discord it'll be fine.

who is user @lfgss on discord? stop that nonsense pls.

yeah that was bugging me too, I asked them to change their nick

I've renamed them to bellybutton

Used to see that alot on mailing lists, back when they were one of the main methods for discussion. Some dork would create email aliases for each mailing list they were on; they'd use the alias "Linux" for a Linux mainling list, "Java" for a Java development list and so on. Annoying at best and would make some people assume they were the list admin. "But it makes sense to me and helps me set up filters" - yeah, fuck off. Presume it's the same lack of a thought process.

Just found the setting to turn dark mode off, that makes it much easier to read for my old eyes.

Glad to hear I'm not the only person who gets eye strain from viewing dark mode