person backing up his car exploitable with the following four panels:
- person looking ahead. the text below him says, “wow a cool software. let’s check out the community”
- screenshot with the text
Community
The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat. - hand on gear shift zoomed in, switching to reverse
- person looking behind with the text “nevermind”.
but why?
Amongst many other reasons, my biggest is it’s not searchable by search engines.
If someone else is having the same problem as me with some software, and someone else has figured it out, it should show up on the first page of a Google search regarding it.
If it doesn’t, the tool the community is using is entirely unfit for purpose.
Open source communities should be all about tearing down walled gardens, not living in them.
I don’t think you understand how terrible search engines are for niche communities. I’d bet most lemmy posts don’t show up. You’re far better off just joining the community and doing a search within discord than wasting your time scraping through bad search results.
If I know the community exists, I can narrow the search on Google
… Unless it’s on discord because in that case it’ll never show up
And if the community I’m looking for is regarding something I’m working on, I’m not putting discord on my work laptop, so shit outta luck
Doesn’t work most of the time for my communities.
Sounds like a personal problem you don’t want to work around.
I’m sorry, you want everything that’s on your discord going through whatever monitoring software your work puts on your laptop?
A lot of places won’t even let you install third party software without going through IT—and I’ll bet you most IT departments aren’t going to authorise you installing discord.
This is a very common situation, not a personal problem.
Weird take.
Just like every other job you bring it up to the IT department and work around it.