Even without the woke it's a terrible idea for hosting knowledge. It's on a centralized server hosted by someone else, and has a transient "chat room" by nature. It's not meant to be permanent. They added forums and document stores but it's all liable to disappear at some point. I had that happen on a friend's server when he switched from private back to free hosted format. That deleted all the old channels where I had been pinning links. Never again.
IME forum software in 2024 sucks. You have a choice between either old software like phpBB, vBulletin, SMF with a ton of vulnerabilities that you have to constantly maintain against an endless horde of botspammers, or you can use a 'modern' forum like "Discourse" with a phone-centric UI that is basically-unusable for actual humans.
Bot-filtering is a tough one. The only real way it can be done is a mandatory singular introduction-post with descriptive skill-testing questions, and then a person manually approving the account for general posting. But that's both labor-intensive, and an ideal spot for the discord-moderator-types to infiltrate.
People need to stop basing their communities and discourse/knowledge stores on Discord. Go back to hosting good old fashioned forums.
Even without the woke it's a terrible idea for hosting knowledge. It's on a centralized server hosted by someone else, and has a transient "chat room" by nature. It's not meant to be permanent. They added forums and document stores but it's all liable to disappear at some point. I had that happen on a friend's server when he switched from private back to free hosted format. That deleted all the old channels where I had been pinning links. Never again.
IME forum software in 2024 sucks. You have a choice between either old software like phpBB, vBulletin, SMF with a ton of vulnerabilities that you have to constantly maintain against an endless horde of botspammers, or you can use a 'modern' forum like "Discourse" with a phone-centric UI that is basically-unusable for actual humans.
Bot-filtering is a tough one. The only real way it can be done is a mandatory singular introduction-post with descriptive skill-testing questions, and then a person manually approving the account for general posting. But that's both labor-intensive, and an ideal spot for the discord-moderator-types to infiltrate.