I really liked the idea of server boosts, essentially sponsored servers that give it more features. I hate the idea of Slack plans you pay for user count when you are an open source community.
The Discord abilities were more flexible for creators too IMO. It looks nice and Slack is too much of a work thing dragging you back into the grind.
@skc Discord “Server Boosts” is/was a great, non-enshittified business model. Everything works perfectly by default, pay for bells and whistles no one needs.
We’ve seen with Slack and Trello etc. how “taking away things everyone needs” is the business model post startup.
My hope: Discord is replaced with comms that persists and can be searched later! Tempted to say Reddit/Lemmy is the way to go. I prize platforms like that more than ever.
@skc Been working with WPML and LearnPress support lately and the difference between an open, public support forum (WPML) and a closed private one (LearnPress) is so striking.
I solve most of my LearnPress problems using old threads on the WPML forum, just because it’s actually searchable, and I waste everyone’s time when I have to submit an already-answered-privately question to the LP support system.