It seems like the restriction should be lifted for accounts without verification after 5 years. After all, you're not even allowed to sign up if you're under 13, so by 5 years you have to be at least 18.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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Well, the day it asks me for ID/face scan is the day I delete my account. Their days are numbered.
I love how photo-based age verification scanning is the worst of both worlds - it destroys your anonymity, but not in a way that makes it easier to run a community where you can ban a person by their digital ID since they can just make a new one with the same face since facial recognition is too crude for that.
What alternative should we all switch to?
Also thinking AI fake IDs will end up being an easy way around this.
Drop anything that's not opensource and federated, except if you want to live the enshitification process over and over.
Matrix might be the closest to Discord. XMPP should also be considered.
Zulip is great for text based communities, but doesn't have built in voice or video.
I hope that discourages open source projects and similar communities from using discord as forum / user support.
Yep, hate when I want to follow some project and they link you to X, Reddit and Discord lol
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Stoat looks promising as an open source alternative
Looks promising...
but why is it always electron?
FOR REAL BRO
I just tried to sign up for it. Installed app and signed up, it wouldn't go through. So I go to web interface and create an account there. I've waited ONE HOUR for email verification, and NOTHING. Asked to resend verification, they made me click through 5 captivas, and still NOTHING. Moving on from stoat.
Misconfiguration with SMTP is likely or their SMTP server is under maintenance and you just tried at a poor time.
Granted for a production environment there should be some notice to users.
I can say as a member of the PCSX2 project that I understand why we and other FOSS emulators use it as official support – but nevertheless wish that we didn't. We've discussed practicalities before, and the project doesn't stay there just from inertia or because of personal preference; there are major practical reasons to prefer it over a forum (which we have), a wiki (which we have), or Matrix.
I'd be willing to endure the pain points and to scale back support in order to be off of that shithole, but I also get that's a fringe minority sentiment shared by only a couple others. All of us would be tech-literate enough to use a client like Signal or Element for intra-project discussion, but very few people would come to Matrix for support (nor would we probably want them to due to the much greater moderation burden per end user), and the chatroom model – to most of us – is much easier for support than a forum. The only reason I'm still begrudgingly on Discord is for PCSX2.
I share your hope, but I seriously doubt this will come even close to dislodging us. Smaller projects, perhaps.
Thanks for the insight.
Putting valuable help, trouble solving and FAQ stuff into a discord is … annoying. You cant find it again. So it will only help the original poster
We do also maintain docs. I put a lot of effort into the Setup ones but got burnt-out before really getting into the other ones (which need a lot of work). And for actual bugs, we use GitHub.
Discord's search functionality is reasonably robust, and as long as you're already there, you can usually find old conversations about the problem you're having. The biggest problem is that it's gated off from the wider Internet, which is shitty.
I think what we all like about it over forums for providing support is that it's closer to real-time communication, it's more flexible (conversations can flow in and out of each other instead of being permanently stuck in one subject-specific thread), and it's more casual.
I get it, but if bigger projects don't move to alternatives, those alternatives have a lot less pressure to evolve. If a big project bites the bullet and moves, then there are more technically minded folks with a vested interest in making the platform better.
Damn it. I did not come here for a reasonable and valid explanation.
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Begrudgingly puts away pitchfork
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Not if I read it correctly: not uploading anything (and fuck you Discord) means I won’t get invited to view adult content, right? That’s it? And we’ll all be teens forever?
Pfft. Whatever.
For now… maybe 6 months or a year and everyone might need it. That’s the way everything seems to be going.
Maybe. That’d be an easy goodbye though.
I agree, already made a post in my server to follow me on X, Y, Z etc and how they were recently hacked 70,000 IDs leaked so they can’t be trusted.
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"Content filtering" is just corporate jargon for subjective censorship, dynamically and discriminately restricting access to knowledge. I abhor all censorship.
Care to make a remix of "7 Words You Can Never Say on TV" for blahaj? YOU might abhor all censorship, but your admins don't, and I'm inclined to agree with them.
What possibly could go wrong? /s
Grok needs to faces to turn into porn.
I refuse to verify my age with a face scan or government ID for an online account/profile.. It's too easy to imagine how fucked up that will go.
The more I delete profiles to platforms with ~~unwanted~~ disturbing features the more recluse I become. It must look to acquaintances that I don't care to speak (to them) but what can I do? I cannot imagine convincing even computer-literate friends to switch to something - as they will have the same problem.
Do I need to retire my Discord gaming server before I'm locked out of controlling it?
Discord genuinely thinks they got the users by the balls... Thing is, people move platforms extremely easily. It happened to MSN Messenger, it happened to Skype, and it'll happen to Discord too.
For those who are looking for something very similar, look at Stoat (formerly known as Revolt). Their URL is https://stoat.chat/.
One problem will be that there are way too goddamn many software projects that use Discord as a shitty replacement for a blog and documentation, and they’re gonna be a pain to move to proper content platforms.
Sometimes the only way thru is shitty. And those devs might have to learn the hard way not to overcentralize- or to not use a damn chat software for what is way more suited to forums.
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I just went through an EXASPERATING experience installing and signing up for Stoat. It DOES NOT WORK. Don't recommend it.
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Yeah I'm only just barely lurking on discord I have no problem leaving.
Guess I’m not using discord anymore lol
Didn't they just get busted for leaking their verification data that they totally weren't keeping?
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