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> But jesus fucking christ, I really hate these private communities.

Also, I don't know if Discourse was dropped in its head as a baby but only through some determined use of the mouse wheel could one possibly discover that there are ... I don't even know ... unlimited additional pages of discussion hiding in that thread. Infinite scroll wasn't designed to be taken literally, holy shit

At least with "Page 1 of 8675309" one can know in advance that they should pull up a chair. I guess the UX pattern is "hover over the '1h ago' URL to see the page number, n00b"

But, back on topic:

> We chose not to exclude all disappearing messages because

uh-huh, so kind of defeats the purpose of disappearing if they're preserved, eh?

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Discord is only marginally better than dedicated forums. Honestly, I'm not even sure it is... But boy am I annoyed at how frequently that is used too.

I don't know if misspelled on purpose, but I think the original name is a more accurate description than the typo (Discourse). Because it sure does create a lot of discord (disagreement and lack of harmony)

You might as well go to the Arch Linux forums or Stack Overflow. Where someone will berate you for bringing up an already discussed topic that is difficult to search for. And to rub salt into the wound, they almost never provide the cross-link...

Back on topic (kinda):

Man, I really do wish Signal would allow you to pin or bookmark messages. It sure beats the cluttered chaos of scrolling, searching, or forwarding to Notes To Self (which lacks a cross-link back but at least gives you precise search queries).

Yes, and only recently did I learn that Discord has a 100 join limit, so yea for everyone in the universe locking themselves in an anti-automation limited platform. As show-stoppingly annoying as joining every single Slack workspace in the universe is, at least they didn't ban my email after 100 workspaces

I actually sponsor Zulip because that's the world I want to live in: sane threading, public HTML views of the chats, Apache 2 licensed, and a "we host it for you" for Open Source communities

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Back in the olden days, I actually would have submitted a PR to introduce that new behavior, but their "fuck you, it's our project" taught me that it's source available more than open source for any meaningful version of that

It makes me wish Keybase was still a thing. They had a slack like platform that was E2EE. It still exists but idk, do we trust Zoom? Maybe it is still a better option.

But thanks, I'll look into Zulip. Sounds like it has things I want

I used keybase for the longest time (one can still see the proofs on my various profiles) but eventually the app would hang so much I convinced my network to move to Signal. I still don't know why Zoom didn't cut the technology loose since they seemed to just have acquihired keybase and didn't try to fold it into Zoom or do anything except let it bitrot

That’s not a typo. They’re complaining about Discourse.

The signal forums that guy linked are from a Discourse instance/forum. Discourse is a platform to build forums.

https://www.discourse.org/

Oh thanks for the correction, I didn't realize the underlying program was called Discourse. I think my joke still stands, but I do appreciate the correction.

> Infinite scroll wasn't designed to be taken literally, holy shit

Someone told them online chat was Hyperbolic and they took it literally.

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