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      I recently build an old plugin for Bukkit (Minecraft server software) from source. This plugin had several dependencies on other plugins which also had their own dependencies. Of course many of these plugins (as well as the server software itself) does not build out of the box anymore.

      I found that some stuff is archived on Archive.org, but also many plugins are archived on Discord. Apart from the danger of Discord disappearing, it is already hard to find these channels and thus keeping many people from finding the knowledge they need.

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        wow, been fortunate so far that I haven’t hit that scenario but that it is worrying.

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      Since the twitter buyout I have been reconsidering things regarding the way we share things online. We really have become accustomed to having everything there recorded all the time and I’m not sure that’s a good thing. I guess the reason is that it’s convenient as you can be mindless about it, but soon you end up with a mixture of useful knowledge and noise, stuff that was meant to be ephemeral and of the time and important insight as the article mentions with regards to data export. Think about the amount of institutional knowledge buried in company chat.

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      Somebody needs to write the equivalent of whitelogger for Discord and, for open source and product servers, periodically publish the logs online.