Masj not bothering to pay the rent anymore eh? :P
It's still a repository of information. Also he could of said something.
I think the Discord is going to be the future tbh. Hope he doesn't kill the forums either, so much history here.
The problem with discord is that it can be shutdown beyond control of admins and mods. Discord themselves can shutdown your server.
Then you have to convince them you haven't done anything wrong. Also, if the server is shutdown there is no guarantee all data will be kept and restored if it gets up again.
With forums yes they can go down, but if backups are made then forums can be restored. Site administrator is in complete control.
Discord is totally beyond your control and it's disorganised. I don't envy anyone trying to maintain order on that.
True.
EP's is pretty simple though. Doesn't really need that much moderating outside of the usual "why no more games on EP" and ad bot nonsense.
I mean it's good if they aren't sharing because that would be a violation of terms of use. And that can lead to the server being nuked.
That's a violation of terms of use. Discord can shutdown that server without warning and purge everything, they don't even have to thoroughly explain the reasons.
I'm sure they can look into DM's because they collect info on everybody, they're actually worse than facebook for that (probably not as bad as google though).
Also not entirely true now I think about it. I believe there was a time when a server didn't want to host the site because of the legalities of hosting roms and everything had to be moved. So a host can close things down too I suppose.
Yes a web host can shutdown a site but they can't delete the database backup you have made locally ;)
Discord can delete what it likes, read the terms of use etc. You have no control over that at all you're at their mercy.
Anyway discord and forums are 2 completely different things. It's fucking crazy people using a chat platform to replace repositories of knowledge.
It's like burning books and everyone using a megaphone instead :wacko:
Thankfully our forums are still here, but there are sites that have closed forums completely and pushed people to discord.
It's madness.
I have Discord, but its mainly for chatting with friends. I don't use it to distribute files. I miss forums, they're a dying breed. I blame spy...smartphones for the decline of forums. At least EP is around for now.
I was thinking about this last night and I've been thinking about it this morning. is it possible to create partitions on a flash drive?
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