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simply don’t watch it. Don’t blame the medium.
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I'm sorry but I have to disagree. The way that discord presents the
information vs a forum style or even Facebook style is, to me, very very
distracting and hard to communicate across. The constant chatter, distracting
graphics and animations, etc. make it difficult, again for me, to find and
clean the information that I am looking for.
In my opinion, the forum construct is a much much better way to disseminate
information and carry on category and subject oriented conversations. Just
jump on the VCF DEC forum and see that there are conversations going on from
PDP-9 Restoration to OS/8 Internals to PDP-11 Operating systems. And since
there are forums for most every vintage computer category you don't get
assailed with noise that you aren't interested in like in the mailing lists.
On 8/30/2023 1:30 PM, Wayne S wrote:
This dislike of “Discord” has touched a nerve for me. It’s also one of the
reasons the cctalk list has lost most of it value.
Discord is a collection of channels most devoted to specific subjects that you
more or less subscribe to. It’s just a server and you need an invite to join a
group. I’m in the Classic computer group and find it to be filled with
knowledge people willing to share that knowledge with others.
Saying you don’t like “Discord” is like saying you don’t like TV. If you don’t
like the content, simply don’t watch it. Don’t blame the medium.
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 30, 2023, at 11:11, Mike Katz via cctalk<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have to second the motion. In my opinion in general social media is a waste
of time and energy.
I understand the time it takes to run VCF but to have multiple possible
different places (webiste, ICM, discord, etc) to get information is a bit much,
especially for us old farts.
Discord contributes as much noise as it does relevant information.
My suggestion would be to use the website as the primary source of information
and write Java/Jacascript/PDP/Json code to take any website updates and forward
them to any other desired channel.
That way all channels get the same information virtually simultaneously without
any human effort than the the info on the main website.
On 8/30/2023 11:35 AM, Tom Uban via cctalk wrote:
On 8/30/23 11:25 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023, at 7:26 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
All the VCFMW info is on the Discord server.
I swear to God, Discord will be the end of the open Internet, it's where
information goes to die. I hate it with every fiber of my being. And yes, I use
it, I'm on many servers. I'm still allowed to detest it.
-Seth
I have heard of Discord, but have not had a need to use it. Odd
thathttps://vcfmw.org/ does not have an obvious link for Discord if it is
where we are expected to find useful information. Would I need to have a
Discord account (and be a member of some group) to see this information?
--tom
