I posted the most recent mirror possible a little further up this thread. Hopefully it works for you. Not sure what other repos it might require which are also gone, but it's something.
Yeah it might be a matter of culture/maturity/experience. But so far the majority of servers I ended up on [1] were filled with people that had this mentality trait. It was unsettling.
[1] topics could be from science, to collapse, to dev ..
There were potential competitors back when it really didn't matter - the early 00s. Even AIM at its feature peak could do pretty much everything Discord can do now (save for some of the server organization and custom content), but only a fraction in the US had Broadband to take advantage of it.
And it wasn't written in resource-hungry Electron.
Demand wasn't there. Gaming was seen way more as "that thing nerds do" and online communities where mostly about very async forums.
Now gaming has hit main stream and is accepted by everyone. Forum concept has been dead in the water for years and everyone has moved go mobile first social medias, but none of the other social medias fill the niche of IM & VoIP.
As side note: we can gripe about Discord being electron based all we want, but that is actually a huge selling point. Discord just works on all platforms with all features. Even Linux is not some shitty after thought that has 3rd party gobbled together client that requires 10 hours of tweaking each week just to keep running. Then obviously the same code base runs on browsers.
I'm working from memory, but AIM at the peak had webcam support and a very rudimentary screen share component. I keep thinking the name of it was "AIM Share", but Googling that does not bring up mentions of it.
Funny you say that, Lego Island, a game that required niche DX5 features to run properly and thus notoriously never worked in WINE, is finally getting addressed as of July of last year. Those issues in question (10729 and 22039 on WineHQ Bugzilla) were over a decade old, too.
So yes, please leave reports, they will get addressed, eventually. :-)
Wine has been a wonderful piece of software when it comes to running old 16-bit Windows games and CD-ROMs of the early to mid-nineties. I can run tons of games which will never see a re-release on a modern machine without spinning up a VM.
This is the kind of stuff Wikis (and wiki-likes) were made for. It's so frustrating when trying to find some references and stumble across the answer on random blog posts.
They self document what they did at work in their own private time. Companies engender this behaviour by calling them "heroes" or "MVP". Particular product/technology gets exposure, free (as in beer) advertising, and similarly as free digestible documentation (project walkthrough) from your staff.
If you forced employee to publish on a wiki, it would feel far too much like work. Having it on a privately owned public forum gives a sense of personal ownership and development.
It's no fun if you have to go through a multi step technical, managerial, docs team and legal review process where PM makes you include/exclude what they want to turn it into a marketing doc, your manager shuffles your priorities, the docs team makes you dumb it down, blow up the word count and remove external links and convert to .docx that will only be available to registered enterprise customers, and then finally legal tells you you can't write any of this anyway.
All of these concerns are orthogonal to whether or not these employees are expected, tacitly or otherwise, to do this necessary work on their own time. There's no reason Apple and Google, of all the companies in the world, can't set aside time for their employees to write documentation, and there's no reason they can't organize their bureaucracy in such a way as to not inhibit this creativity.
