[03:48:52] This is a thing of beauty [03:48:57] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1494182787131904040/Screenshot_20260415-204830.png?ex=69e1ada9&is=69e05c29&hm=5655bb180792ce01e3ce29e09acbfdc6f78d7209f2da2dc41700222f012085e1& [07:13:49] I wonder who is NotAracham when he is Not Aracham [07:13:54] :ThinkingHardMH: [07:14:25] HowAracham? [07:14:44] Lol [07:16:50] Also oddly I keep misremembering Skye into Skype [07:17:19] @pskyechology did you call yourself Skye based on Skype? [07:17:45] nah i said "my new name isn't gonna fall out from the sky" [07:17:55] Oh lol [07:18:27] five seconds later: oh [07:18:49] i should ask my girlfriend where she got her name [07:19:31] [1/2] Guys trick question [07:19:31] [2/2] If NotAracham is NotAracham, then who is NotAracham? [07:22:10] WhoAracham? [07:22:32] Wait yeah [07:22:37] Who is Aracham [08:55:19] recent influx of bot accounts on a wiki i edit on, one of them did the user page introduction thing, but the others have made no edits [08:55:31] are they about to launch an attack? or just scraping data? [08:56:22] their users r always firstname lastname then some numbers [08:56:26] JohnSmith67 [08:56:28] for example [11:33:20] routine spamming, little intelligence to it but it means it got through the usual measures and an ip block will likely be needed [13:16:33] Holy shit claire hiiii [14:24:57] about a year of manhunt has done wonders for my legs [14:37:51] I walk a lot but I plan on doing more intense workouts now that I’m getting back into martial arts [15:26:34] https://youtu.be/kWcuSvv6v90?si=9dHapG7gy1yfMdAo [15:27:15] platforms may be amazing but [15:27:28] i go where people are [15:29:26] Yeah, Discord's really nothing if people don't use it, same with it's alternatives [15:29:28] don't worry and listen to this woman I've never seen before tell you where to go [15:30:05] also [15:30:19] it doesn't matter if you use discord or whatever killer alternative they launch [15:30:25] there's one that will always prevail [15:30:27] https://xkcd.com/1782/ [15:32:44] IRC is unkillable [15:32:54] It will outlive humanity trust [15:33:10] Can't outlive humanity if there's nobody to maintain it [15:35:38] The future robot overlords will maintain it duh /silly [15:35:51] (what could go wrong) [15:35:59] Have more faith in the octopodes. [15:42:04] The Successors will make good work out of IRC [15:49:17] [1/2] They can try as hard as they want, but we've already sold our souls to Discord a long time ago... Not saying I like Discord, it'll be active for like a few weeks then dies as soon as people go back to Discord. [15:49:17] [2/2] -# I'm surprised that even Bsky managed to get out of the hole of "just another Twitter clone" like Threads... But it's just now another social people use along with Twitter. [15:49:57] Isarra updates their skins once in a blue moon [15:50:06] bsky did pretty well [15:50:35] it helped they got a nice app, influencers promoted it [15:50:47] The issue with discord is the absolute dominance. It'd need to do something spectacularly stupid to lose that. And although current trajectories suggest that that's a distinct possibility, they haven't done it yet. [15:51:30] skype and msn were dominant at the time [15:51:43] idk what happened to skype honestly, it worked well but we all dropped it [15:51:51] The Age Verification scare really said "aight, that's it" but then again, I never seen anyone actually commit. [15:52:34] Teamspeak took over Skype then Discord took over Teamspeak because they promised it was a "safe haven for gamers" [15:52:57] oh i never used teamspeak, i guess it wasn't popular here [15:53:31] we used facebook messenger a lot [15:53:56] Skype is also shutdown so only Teamspeak and Discord are the main competitors (despite Discord dominanting the market) [15:53:58] I think Age Verification could have killed discord if there was competition ready to capitalise on it. But the competition wasn't established enough to take advantage of the situation. [15:54:17] does discord have any real competition? [15:54:23] Not really. [15:54:32] i know there are some alternatives but i doubt they'd scale to discord size [15:55:12] This is the thing. The alternatives aren't strong enough to pose a serious threat, so all we get is a lot of discussion about switching without any real viable platforms to switch to. [15:55:13] i don't even know how they allow so much storage over years and years of conversations that may never be seen again [15:55:43] bc its only text [15:56:06] Each time they do something stupid the alternatives get stronger though, so hopefully we'll eventually see some serious competition that forces discord to improve itself. [15:56:38] [1/2] Discord even went back on their Age Verify system to use AI to determine the age of users based on messages instead of every user, regardless of account age, must verify... [15:56:38] [2/2] But really... imo, anyone from like 2015-2020 should immediately be over 18 by now... [15:57:10] Account age ought to count for something, ye. [15:58:09] I've had Discord since 2016 so I should know a thing or two about a thing or two about my IRL age, lmao. [15:58:10] If you assume that accounts aren't TOS breaking then all accounts more than 5 years old must logically belong to over-18 users. [15:59:19] i may be wrong but i don't think they can just assume the age [15:59:51] taking roblox as an example [15:59:59] With the use of AI, they can try. [16:00:09] Even if adults act childish... [16:00:15] AI is still too stupid for it [16:00:38] people were using gmod and death stranding to fool discord's video age check [16:00:53] And people still will. [16:01:20] Almost [16:01:25] 10000 members [16:01:36] this is why we need the government to be able to see what we are all doing at every second, that way there are no issues with children accessing content the government doesn't want them to see. we could apply that to adults too, like that book I once read about some year in the 1900s [16:02:14] https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/615786602454581249/1494367325099397344/2Q.png?ex=69e25986&is=69e10806&hm=2fd66776cea67aa4f37ee6f79a3d733c222d29aa969224b38078ae52a46c8eac& [16:02:54] -# fun fact the book was published in 1949 [16:02:59] some sites here require your ID card [16:03:36] Written the year before though, hence the year chosen (reversal of the latter two numbers). [16:06:14] Oh that’s why he chose that year [16:06:18] I prefer the much niche reference, 451 degrees Fahrenheit [16:07:32] that book is called Celsius 232.7778 outside USA [16:08:34] I vouch for the truth of this lie. [16:09:10] -# Frankly, I'm surprised Owell or Bradburry hadn't teamed up to make another political satire novel. [16:09:44] Unless they did and it went under our noses because 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 were just their magnum opus. [18:18:48] I miss when buttons had gradients [19:21:32] 100% [19:48:44] :Cutegoobercat: [19:52:44] https://tenor.com/view/digimon-hatching-egg-botamon-gif-8670587 [21:56:44] What are the design choices you guys miss on websites? [22:04:33] [1/2] Asking this here to avoid clogging up the tech channel, but in relation to this message: https://discord.com/channels/407504499280707585/1006789349498699827/1494444379866271804 [22:04:33] [2/2] What's Nofollow meant to do? [22:04:53] nothing i miss, lots of current things id like to see gone though [22:04:56] Tolerable amounts of ads and decent sidebar navigation are the main 2. [22:05:25] I don't see the point of making you have to click a button to make the sidebar appear when you're not on mobile. [22:05:35] It just slows things down. [22:08:08] Them being colorful instead of just mostly white [23:24:07] Less over abundance of emoji, more custom art assets.