I'm not sure what you mean by "address to general readers"? Like, do you want more of an open letter of the "are you a moderator/owner of a Yahoo group? consider letting one of the following volunteers back up your group's data for you" kind of thing? Or what? Sorry, just need a little more clarification there.
I can't handle Discord, because the emojis bother me a LOT. I find them extremely irritating to the eye and sometimes even confusing. (There's one on Slack, for instance, that's supposed to be "confused" - it doesn't look remotely confused to me. If I went off the visual, I'd use it for "sympathy"!) So I turn off emojis on Slack and I loved using IRC when the Yuletide channel was active there. Discord, sadly, refuses to even consider allowing users to individually control their viewing of emojis whatsoever, and when I tried suggesting it on their forum I had dozens of people downvoting it (apparently people get very angry when you want to NOT see their emojis :P so frustrating). Discord is clearly not neurodivergent-friendly (as I'm pretty sure my Asperger's has something to do with my strong dislike of emojis), and I wish there was a way to change that, but no one's listened to me there! So I don't use it at all.
I run Linux on my usual system and fired up a Windows 7 box I rarely use just for this purpose. Perhaps ironically, I actually don't know scripting; I can do some cli stuff but prefer a gui whenever possible, hence using PG Offline. (I do know a little SQL though, so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to figure out how to export stuff using SQLiteStudio even if I can't afford the cost of the registration for PG Offline).
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Re: The Great Purge
Date: 2019-10-22 08:46 pm (UTC)I can't handle Discord, because the emojis bother me a LOT. I find them extremely irritating to the eye and sometimes even confusing. (There's one on Slack, for instance, that's supposed to be "confused" - it doesn't look remotely confused to me. If I went off the visual, I'd use it for "sympathy"!) So I turn off emojis on Slack and I loved using IRC when the Yuletide channel was active there. Discord, sadly, refuses to even consider allowing users to individually control their viewing of emojis whatsoever, and when I tried suggesting it on their forum I had dozens of people downvoting it (apparently people get very angry when you want to NOT see their emojis :P so frustrating). Discord is clearly not neurodivergent-friendly (as I'm pretty sure my Asperger's has something to do with my strong dislike of emojis), and I wish there was a way to change that, but no one's listened to me there! So I don't use it at all.
I run Linux on my usual system and fired up a Windows 7 box I rarely use just for this purpose. Perhaps ironically, I actually don't know scripting; I can do some cli stuff but prefer a gui whenever possible, hence using PG Offline. (I do know a little SQL though, so I'm hopeful that I'll be able to figure out how to export stuff using SQLiteStudio even if I can't afford the cost of the registration for PG Offline).