i’m not old i don’t understand this stuff
am i allowed to post liek i do in other places or is thatspamming
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Hi athena, I think it might be a good idea to just browse and see how other people are using the forum and just join in on discussions wherever you’ve got something to say.
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I feel like I have ran headfirst into the kind of things I’m not supposed to do here, I’ll try to adapt X) (mostly, posting links to itch stuff)
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I’m learning the intricacies of running this whole thing along the way too. For what it’s worth, I’ve added itch.io to the exemption list for automatic spam detection.
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thank you so much! Most of what I like on this internet is on itch in some way or form X)
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it’s crazy to think the forum format is so old and outdated. it was the norm growing up on the internet in the early 2000s
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You Post words and then you go away for a while. When you come back other people have posted. It’s ok for a conversation to take place over the course of days. Otherwise it is like what you know.
It is a very intentional way of using the internet that can heal the soul.
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It’s like Discord, but instead of channels where all sorts of conversations overlap chaotically and it’s impossible to keep up, there are forums where people post new “topics” (like you did), and each topic is (mostly) a self-contained conversation about a thing. There’s very little overlap, very little chaos. (But sometimes there’s some.)
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That’s the thing: I wouldn’t call it outdated, just out of fashion. The websites themselves are outdated because its hard to do a total revamp and move everyone over to the new site. Though keeping things minimalist, some clean code, nice coat of paint, modern QoL, modern embeddings, personalization, spam detection and hosting of images? This thing blows the old ones out of the water in my opinion! Plus the instant messaging is a nice feature that gives it that modern touch.
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I like discord but it has fractured the internet, with everyone having their own private community. Forums used to be great for just accessing stuff easily from the outside with no accounts. Also twitter used to be that but now everything is locked, so. I am kinda active in the romhacking scene (mostly as a player, not as a dev) and it can be really hard to find some of those roms because you need to join the person’s personal discord server to find it and it can be awkward like “OMG WELCOME HERE IN OUR VERY ACTIVE COMMUNITY please check all those boxes and tell us what you’re interested in 
“ “you’ve just gained 1 level thanks to mee6” - chill i’m just here to download one game.
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Discord is a blight on the internet. Or maybe it isn’t, because it’s barely “on the internet". It’s a thing, separate from the Web. Once it dies (which it definitely will), everything that’s ever been discussed on it or made available though it will simply disappear.
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I dunno, discord is just gen z IRC, it’s not like its a brand new concept. it’s more that people’s habits have changed.
I’m a millennial and I used IRC when I was a teenager. Discord looks like IRC superficially and it’s easy to draw this comparison, but it fills a completely different niche. IRC was simply used to hang out. It was only a chat room, nothing else. It was purely social. Discord is heavily used as “internet infrastructure", so to speak. And it’s not built for that.
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tbf IRC was and still is more than just chat, file sharing was massive on there. Plus you could setup bots to automate a lot of functions that made running a community much easier. It’s been a long time but I also remember there being a lot of flexibility in terms of plugins to add functionality.
The thing about Discord is that it plays the same role as kids hanging out in Fortnite or Roblox - it’s a communal space where a lot of users don’t particularly value longevity or robustness.