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    • Terrible format for archiving knowledge
    • Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
    • Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
    • Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
    • Prevents indexing by web search engines
    • Antithetical to interoperability
    • Privacy-hostile

    A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can’t manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.

    If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.

    If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.

    A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won’t get my contributions.











  • This is not about FOSS. (As you could have deduced from my mention of Foundry.)

    It’s about services like Discord collecting and owning our words, our voices, our stories, our communities.

    It’s also about us retaining access to those things, and having agency over our personal information. Discord has been known to lock people out of their accounts if they don’t hand over their phone numbers or photo IDs, for example.

    There are perfectly good tools available that serve their users, rather than exploiting us for the benefit of corporations, and I choose to use them.

    (It’s also nice that Mumble has superior voice quality, which I find helpful to role playing, although that’s not its main advantage IMHO.)




  • I would expect any random headset to plug into the headset and microphone ports and Just Work, and ditto for USB

    For the most part these days, they do. But OP asked about wireless.

    or Bluetooth headsets that report themselves as the appropriate device class.

    The problem with Bluetooth is not the operating system or drivers, but Bluetooth itself. The spec famously lacks provisions for good quality stereo output with good quality input at the same time. This is why many wireless headsets use a (non-Bluetooth) dongle.











  • Your guess is confirmed here.

    There are plans to update the forum, including for better security (the main issue with changing the forum software is concern over reliably migrating all of the existing content). After emailing (admittedly not current best practice), the passwords are hashed and only the hash is stored.

    …and later…

    The forum has been updated to https, and passwords are no longer being sent by email.

    Which raises the question of how old OP’s screen shot is.

    Also, no, the password would not necessarily still be stored in plain text on their end. The cleartext password used in that email might be only in memory, and discarded after sending the message. Depends on how the UBB forum software implemented it and how Larian’s mail servers are set up.

    EDIT: I just verified that this behavior has resurfaced since it was originally fixed. OP would do well to responsibly report it, rather than stirring up drama over a web forum account.










  • https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

    Date	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
    From	Jonathan Corbet <>
    Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy
    
    On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
    Tero Roponen  wrote:
    
    > From: Maisa Roponen 
    > 
    > "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
    > have those things [=] below them and it does not."
    > 
    > This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
    > be happy again.
    > 
    > Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen 
    > [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
    > Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen 
    > ---
    > When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
    > niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
    > she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
    > me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.
    
    Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
    lonely "s" need pine away no longer.
    
    Thanks,
    
    jon