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Never again (lemmy.world)
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[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

when you can help people live in discord.

That live support is super handy when you're 8 timezones apart from the maintainers.

  • Hey there, how do I get this thing to compile?

11 hours later

  • Ok just need to make sure you have this list of prerequisites installed and then we can walk you through the compilation process.

6 hours later

  • Nevermind, I built and installed another project.
[-] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Or if you find the project a while later, and the link/server is dead, either because the maintainer forgot to update the link, or the server shut down/removed invites for some reason, like spam prevention.

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