Discord got big in online gaming because they offered a VOIP and text chat browser cliemt. Just copy or type the short link and you’re in in a minute. They also did free hosting which was huge.

Compared to Teamspeak or Ventrilo, literally just eliminating the steps of downloading a client, installing it, and typing in an IP address caused them to explode overnight. Also you could “host” without changing router settings (most kids/students have to ask their parents or jump through hoops for this).

Technically there was stuff like Skype but that never had the convenient team speak style chat rooms to drop in and out of freely.

Within months of suddenly getting popular, discord had a huge userbase that everybody was using already, and that momentum got us to the point where in some aspects its even replacing the role of wiki’s and forums even though its terrible at it.

“My work has included advising executives on DEI strategy and coaching leaders, as well as designing and delivering high-quality professional learning experiences for employees across all levels. I have published 12 books, over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and academic papers, and more than 125 essays and op-eds in magazines and newspapers. Foundations have invested $22.2 million into my diversity, equity, and inclusion research, and I have procured an additional $18.5 million for my center at USC.”

This is from the bottom of the article, which can be read in full at https://archive.is/RRfmZ

This man isn’t an obscure nobody, he is a core member of the DEI movement and teaches his brand of thinking to students seeking DEI degrees and other professionals. He is truly representative of the state of the whole thing and you are grasping at straws to deny it. He even brags about how much money it pulls in and how many companies and newspapers he influences.

This sounds like subtitles for a DVD commentary track, which were probably supposed to be a separate subtitle track but weren’t for some reason (or your player defaulted to them alphabetically).

If you happen to stumble on the DS version, that is a pretty good port too.

I played without a guide, and I think I got stuck like that in a couple places later on but eventually got through it. Honestly though if you’re stuck and no longer having fun figuring it out just use a guide so you can see the rest of the game, nobody said you had to be that kind of patient gamer.

Good to know. I’ve been going nuts trying to make a community on and off for like a week and it just won’t go through when I press the button, I get stuck watching the spinning circle. I tried a couple different devices/browsers too. Hopefully it clears up on its own.

Is anyone else having trouble posting? I’ve had a lot of times when posts/comments fail to go through (“post” button stays as a spinning circle). Sometimes I can get it after a couple times, but I’ve been stubbornly trying to reply to one comment in c/games all day with no success, despite posting a thread there and making some other posts.

Yeah. I’m not necessarily asking how to do this for myself, but if this would be in-demand as a new feature, because I think i see some problems it could solve. I don’t want to return to Reddit’s system where the front page is heavily curated by admins but i think this could be less of a culture shock for some people.

How would people feel about a feature where instances have a default user block list, or, hide certain communities from the front page unless a user specifically searches them out. Similar to how EG some instances hide NSFW unless you are logged in, it prevents newbies from having their front page show them stuff that’s going to get them outraged at the whole site.

That could be a better solution than defederating some instances, like burggit, where users here are just mad about having a few weird porn communities shown to them. Ideally, communities could opt in the this flagging as well if they want to be less discoverable. Booru sites do this with default blacklist tags, for example, and it’s been a successful way of having their cake and eating it too with regard to having normies and weirdoes on the same site and avoiding controversy.

Me, personally, I wouldn’t mind if ONLY lemmygrad stayed defeated, but there’s going to be more issues like this in the future.