AdamAlexanderRies t1_j8cahbg wrote on February 13, 2023 at 6:04 AM

Reply to comment by daking999 in [D] Quality of posts in this sub going down by MurlocXYZ

What about a public discord server that only allows actual researchers to post, but allows everyone to view? Easy with roles.

daking999 t1_j8dmw8r wrote on February 13, 2023 at 3:15 PM

I haven't used discord but heard good things about it, even with some labs using it instead of slack.

AdamAlexanderRies t1_j8eb94a wrote on February 13, 2023 at 6:03 PM

I'm unaffiliated but pretty passionate about good design in general. Discord's really the spiritual successor to IRC, which predates the world wide web. The server-channel-role skeleton comes from IRC, but it's so feature rich and easy to use that I can see it supplanting a large portion of the social internet over the next decade. For the last month I've been developing my first discord bot (with chatgpt assistance) and the dev interface is excellent, too.

No experience with slack, so I can't comment on it.

daking999 t1_j8ejfe2 wrote on February 13, 2023 at 6:56 PM

Hmm well now I don't know if I'm talking to you or your bot!

Cool I should check it out. Seems like the free version is already pretty functional?

AdamAlexanderRies t1_j8eppdi wrote on February 13, 2023 at 7:37 PM

ChatGPT's mostly a cool toy, but there are some tasks it's genuinely useful for. I use it to explain complex topics, write code, brainstorm ideas, and for fun creative writing exercises. I've only tried the free version, but I am seeing mostly disappointment about the pro version.

Definitely check it out for at least curiosity's sake.

daking999 t1_j8f0a6l wrote on February 13, 2023 at 8:46 PM

Oh sorry I meant I should check out discord!

I've used ChatGPT for a few tasks and it's been helpful (not perfect), e.g. summarizing a long document. Current issue is mainly just it being overloaded! Haven't tried code writing or brainstorming yet.

AdamAlexanderRies t1_j8fsdyh wrote on February 13, 2023 at 11:55 PM

Oh, yes! My mistake. Definitely check out discord. PM me here if you want to add me there :)

A couple public servers you should probably glance at:

https://discord.com/invite/openai

https://discord.com/invite/midjourney

You can use the Midjourney bot to make your own images if you go to one of their "newbie-##" rooms and type "/imagine [prompt]"

VacuousWaffle t1_j8l262a wrote on February 15, 2023 at 2:15 AM

I just find that Discord is bad at being archived, and not indexed by search engines. It's kind of a mess of a walled garden, and even searching within it is kind of mediocre.