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.

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    2 days ago

    Some kind of weird WebGL error on their site I’ve never seen before.

    Doesn’t load for me.

    LibreWolf doesn’t seem to be offering to activate canvas.

    Oh well.

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        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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          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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            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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                10 hours 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.

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      Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.storyden.org (see the browser console for more information).

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        Exactly same error for me. I’m glad there are such indicators so I don’t have to waste my time on such a crappy overcomplicated design.