While looking for Discord alternatives I came across this project which looks like a great alternative for the kinds of Discord servers centered around Open Source projects and organizations. Ones where live chat and voice rooms aren’t the focus.

It’s a combination of forums and knowledge base that would be perfect for this use case.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    24 hours ago

    You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It’s not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.

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      22 hours ago

      But, background is dynamic. You can see it has some kind of fancy moving dots. It’s totally unnecessary, but clearly WebGL was used for that.

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        20 hours ago

        Oh, so it is, hadn’t noticed it at first.

        And, sure enough, disabling webgl in about:config causes the page to throw the error, instead of degrading gracefully. An animation of random dots is not at all necessary to expose about a product that is a web forum.

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            25 minutes ago

            Once again, something that is absolutely not needed to explain what a forum software is and thus, should degrade gracefully. To a static png or something.