@Dex Stewart
I hope it was restored quickly and didn’t leave you hanging too long. As someone who unfortunately got a taste of that experience. I can empathize.
@Color Anon
Heavy alt-chan user and this pattern holds true even for the odd bunch of people on the smaller imageboards that I use (including myself). I have gone back and forth on how bad I view it and I think a lot of the hate on it is also from the (rightful) perception of it draining and drawing away activity from the boards themselves. I’d still say Discord can be good for some groups and compared to the horribleness of Twitter it doesn’t seem that every Discord is a 100% awful experience and bad for every website/group that sets up one. What I will say though: It is too ubiquitous (single point of failure) , too used in situations where it makes for a worse experience (like, for anything involving tech support, please give me a forum where I can easily search previous questions) and for those of us like me who haven’t ever set up accounts there I have seen the splits in communities that result when they mostly drift off to Discord and some places can lose what made them special/interesting in the first place.
@Fleur de Lis
@Amagan
I’d probably try to disassemble the monitor to save the little fella (I love Spiders) but, truth be told, painstaking to deal with regardless of what course of action, or even nothing, if you wind up with a dead spider in there. (If anyone tries it, watch out for exposed transformers!)