Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well

Yep, I've known specialists that are extremely good at their job but when you hear them talk about other stuff you sometimes wonder how they manage to tie their shoes in the morning.

It's not a matter of intelligence, these people just have different priorities.

While there's truth in your words, there are alternatives that require little effort. Even a IRC channel would have been better.

Discord is not only a terrible bad application, it's the equivalent of writing posts on medium. If and when they decide to gatekeep your content, there's nothing you can do.

That’s not what discord is for if you are doing anything where a big corporation wants to muscle you around.

The lack of intelligence is thinking you can build a grey zone project in discord. It's like saying you want to build a house but don't want to pour a foundation. Like, good for you, focus on windows and paint, but you're not gonna get anywhere.

Easy quick and dirty are not acceptable when you are trying to build emulation software based on the products of a very litigious international corporation

That’s what discord is for, an easy, quick and dirty community aggregate

and thats also the reason why this project is now gone...

also you are pretty much "paying" with all you information and since they started heavily monetizing Discord you will pay even more as they soon will start to sell you conveniences or essential features. Also Tencent you know, which is pretty much like Nestlé, so it should be avoided.

Not for a minute, no.

Creating a channel on freenode takes seconds

Huh, I thought it was just a chat room to get to know people.

I think you just need to know what you are getting into.

It’s a private company, it’s closed to sourced, they capture and monetise your data.

For people who value transparency and privacy, there are better options. This emulator project, should have known better than to use is.

aaalll of that being said, it’s very popular and if you are not concerned by any of the points raised in this who threads, it’s a good place to meet people to chat about Warcraft or whatever your thing is.

Just be aware that any thing your write, effectively belongs to them forever.

What's a safe way to host a site without anyone being able to track it to you?

I make lots of use of discord. That does not mean I prefer it to forum style for communication - discord just suits well for one-off joke-y talk

Technically Discord is trying to solve this with their threads feature, but I've found either the server owners don't force it or the users don't use it. Either way, it sucks.

I think most of those old forums are gone now.

Not platform. Protocol.

/s is for cowards! I will never!

They trust people's intelligence

I had the guide open on my laptop for so long but ADHD'd and never got it done lol

Yeah Ryujinx is in C# Unity so it has its limits. They wrote Yuzu mostly in C++ so while it tended to be buggy it performed way better.

Thanks for the very kind comment. Happy to hear you're enjoying Yuzu :)

You correct in the statement Ryujinx aims for accuracy and does not implement certain performance workarounds Yuzu did. However, your comment is exaggerated. Even Ryujinx isn't a cycle accurate emulator, nowhere close.

I misread that and thought you were d*cking your sister.

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That one looks like a gorilla ate a ghost.

I have, but the clapping made me think their point wasn’t well thought out.

You've touched on the cycle of enshittification. Step 1, everything is free and wonderful. Step 2: milk those customers for money.

The solution is to favor and support services which take capitalism out of the equation. It might cost a little bit, but I think a few small donations can go a long way.

It's a closed system owned by a single company. If you provide data or information there, the company owns the data, other people can't find the data using search engines and they would need an account to access the data. Imagine the internet is owned by a single company and they could sell, change, censor, delete restrict access to or use the information in means you cannot predict.

It's a closed ecosystem. What else is there to say?Compare Contrast with IRC, Matrix or XMPP.

They don't really need a chat though, do they? For their purpose of user-interfacing development and tracking, a forum would be much more useful when coupled with a code hosting system, no?

Can do bug reporting/tracking and development through the latter, while the former allows discoverable FAQ, dev-to-user and user-to-user support. With chat, the last point is just about impossible plus it's not discoverable.

People downvoting you don't seem to remember the whole "messages aren't delivered while you're not online" thing

TIL that typing in a username, server address and hitting 'Connect' is a bad UX.

I used to on irc when i was 10 fucking years old. You type.in the serve and then type #before the room you want to use.

Did they put lead back in gasoline when i wasn't looking or something?

Revolt is still a thing, though apparently they're trying to rebuild voice chat

Been using Matrix (Element) for a while and it’s honestly fine apart from the fact that almost no one uses it (Lemmy devs are a rare exception).

While it has many features of Discord while still being easier than IRC and encrypted to boot, I’m assuming the reason most people won’t use it is because Discord is simply more convenient. After all, that is and has been their main selling point from the beginning, aside from voice chat for gaming, which isn’t really necessary for dev communities.

I mean using matrix or any chat service is giving your data to someone else. What's the distrust with revolt?

Looking at their git repos it seems pretty above board: multiple open source clients by community members, APGL license, docker images and backend repo all pretty accessible in one place.

No hate on Matrix of course, but theres a few people who seem to have the ick for Revolt and I wonder if Ive missed something.

It doesn’t work if you use iCloud or a custom domain with iCloud.

I ended up using Protonmail.

Get a custom domain with a catchall set up