Who wouldn't want to be me?The biggest issue would be getting everyone their old usernames. I can guarantee if we go somewhere else that some nitwit will register as someone else's old user name and pretend to be that person.
LET'S GO! THIS BAND ISN'T THAT COOL AS THE LAST ONE AND I'M FCKNG WASTED!
It feels more hostile? Have you been in P&N? J/K of course. It feels that way there because of their moderation style in the tech forums. Letting fanatics duke it out and derail discussions is bad juju. It's why I squash those beefs here faster than a jack rabbit on a hot date. May as well be on Reddit if you are going to allow shills, trolls, and fanatics to run wild and filthy the place up shit posting. As has been said, Reddit sucks, I am not making that my home.
I will still hang at TPU for tech as Wizz seems cool and he is far preferrable to corpo overlords. Tom's can suck it, I am not migrating there.
I don't know what Lemmy is so I am inclined to decline going there. But if it's the will of this council that the Hobbit carry the burden, I will see it done. I will need the link/ mark on his door in the Shire, and a fast tracked sign up process.
You mean besides you?Who wouldn't want to be me?
nb4 the BWAWAWHHAHHHAAA
We're trying to think of a cheap but practical way to save a mostly dead tech forum. Is this what you consider mission critical stuff? How are you in IT? Twitter run in a shed too? Good Lord.The issue with using something like Discord is you're still at the mercy of a 3rd party, which could easily change/shutdown in the future. Ex: will Discord be around in 20 years from now?
As long as you have user emails, or at least access, getting a couple of hundred more or less active members shouldn't be an issue. But I have no idea how active the main forum is. This is pretty much the only place I go. Even clicking on the "social" header feels like too much work.
Understood . . . if you are the REAL highland145. Maybe post a dick pic for verification.Shit, there days I disown myself and I.
We still have moonie and his verbal diarrhea.Was just thinking.. since sportage left.. we'll be spared bandwidth on his walls of text.
If I don't mark my territory how will others know it's mine? 🐺See I don't know how to work discord, I find Reddit a bit impersonal and cold, I like the way forums are structured and I like that I know the posting styles of the members here so I know when someone's serious or lightheadedly trolling.
I really like the mid teams here, they keep a lid on people being arseholes but they are happy to let a conversation flow and don't get too stressed if things go way off topic!
My Ideal situation would be for the forum to stay as it is but maybe be owned by the members. I'd be happy to chip in to cover costs but I'd like the mod teams to stay the same, they are what gives the forum it's "flavour" (and peculiar scent if I'm honest)!
Who wants to test one?
Absolutely happy to chip in that much!If I don't mark my territory how will others know it's mine? 🐺
We are discussing it in the tech forums too. I'll go where ever everyone else agrees to. I don't care if it's the Shire, or what. I don't see any way Future sells the the forums to us for a fair price, or let's us keep the name. A year of a shitty streaming service is over $100, so I am in for at least that much. I canceled Disney+ so the money would be better spent on keeping the band together.
Shit no. Not feeling the Discord vibe either. No more corpo overlords when this bar closes for good. Have we learned nothing? That's why I won't go to Ars Technica, not trading one for another.Who wants to test one?