Discord as the only official support channel is a big no-no. Projects with a clear posture against privacy don’t belong here IMHO. [image]

Depends on the context, e.g. I wouldn’t discriminate Volvo cars because it’s China owned, since the contract doesn’t allow the investor company to interfere with the management in Sweden. While this is not true with MG cars, Nokia, etc., and definitely with Discord.

[image] Compliments to PG and Secureblue support currently on Discord. I wonder if they will continue to promote Discord as the main tool for support giving the recent plans of the platform to push the age verification.

2FA makes Discord ultra secure, joke aside. I don’t think they would need to use age verification on a tech support Discord so I don’t think this matter to them.

[image] null: I don’t think they would need It’s not about SecureBlue, it’s about Discord themselves. The company can push more nonsense down the pipe unless people fully uproar. It’s a matter of when it will happen, not an if anymore.

I was wondering the same thing. (Discord - age verification)

[image] Compliments to PG and Secureblue “secureblue” conversation over to Discord Hm, unfortunate move. :sweat_smile: But habits are hard to break I guess..

I haven’t really looked in to the Discord situation that must but my understanding is the default is teen account without age verification. I don’t think Secureblue has a nsfw channel, so I don’t think Secureblue would change Discord out when Discord has ultra secure 2fa. :melting_face:

At least, there are actual reasons as of why they want to stick to Discord. :+1:t2:

Don’t take this as an announcement of anything, but: we are exploring the many alternatives. That said, no decision has been made about whether to move off Discord, let alone to where we would move if we did decide to. If we do decide to do so, it will be announced on Discord / Bsky and there will …

I am glad that you guys considering it. :slight_smile: [image] RoyalOughtness: Bsky Interesting why did you guys choose as bluesky over something like Twitter or Mastodon as main social media? I am just curious. When clicking on Mastodon on your website it just redirect to bluesky. I honest…

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kissu February 10, 2026, 9:08pm 44

Hm, unfortunate move.
But habits are hard to break I guess..

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