arglebargle

kde, linux, busses, open source and the good old Grateful Dead.

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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Most people are not making software and trying to create support structures either. So I am not sure what you are getting at here. If someone can create a development project of any decent size, setting up a web page for cheap or free is trivial. So I have no idea what you are getting at.

    It has nothing to do with if I like discord or not, it is simply is it appropriate or not. I have explained why it is not an ideal support place. Certainly not a tier one. Nothing I said was pretending anything.

    And yes it depends on the server. You do realize that admins use various bots and have different settings per discord instance right? There are many discussions with the discord devs about their various approaches and problems with searches.



  • most people aren’t gonna host it themselves

    Why not? Barely costs anything. Or even free if you want to rely github, and if that goes away you can move it elsewhere, you own it. I still host multiple web sites and work with several projects that leverage tools to self host. A domain is not that expensive.

    No one under 50 knows how to use irc? We still use it for some of the support cases for a few software projects and I can assure you the majority of users are under 30. But I get your point, for the average, barely computer literate person, they probably haven’t even heard of it.

    you just put a discord button in the app or the settings page if it’s something bigger than an app:

    To find out if someone will bother answering a question, to sign up, to ask the same thing over and over again. Horrible way to run support.





  • Sure… Want to fix the stupid new menus in windows 11? Oh it is just a new guid key in the registry in a location you wouldn’t expect. You know just cut and paste shit into the registry you found on the internet. Windows is just as annoying, if not more so.

    In any case: what system GUI’s do you want? GUIS make everything so much harder, careful what you wish for.



  • Yes it was. Windows XP began the phone home for licensing. It also created a tiered system where things are kept from you unless you paid more, but they were not really clear about it. I remember needing a Corporate license to do some things we needed to do. This is also where they realldy fucked up with Active X and tying windows explorer to the system in such a way that made it harder not to use it. Home users could not actually admin local accounts, and security between then was basically non existant.

    And then shortly after launch they began the push to get the users to use their home page, msn services, notifications for explorer to be the default browser. The media player started pushing their online services. Live ID became a thing.

    If you complained that they had things you didnt want, like explorer, windows media player, windows messenger, etc: they did say you could run a utility to “remove” them. Except it didn’t. It removed the icons. So they started the flat out lying to the consumer with windows XP.

    Edit: Now I remember, among other reasons, we needed corporate to stop forced updates.

    Edit: I apologize for all the after post edits but the longer I think about it the more I think of!

    What about the new “buy music online” feature? You could ONLY use Explorer to complete the transaction, no matter if you had a different default browser or not.