Sure, the UX is guiding you and it's also more in line with what people already know, each channel is a bit like a FB messenger conversation after all. You also get instant feedback since you can see your message on the screen, unlike a mail where it sometimes seems that it's thrown into the void.

I think it's not as much a statement about ease of use but rather about comfort and playing into UX tropes everyone is used to now.

But both Zulip and Matrix work pretty much the same. So it's different to mailinglists (which I still regard as superior compared to chat programs, because of discoverability/searchability), but I don't see the superiority of Discord over Zulip/Matrix/Rocket ... At least not in context of FOSS programs.

This I don't know tbh, it might just be a network effect: everyone is used to Discord so everybody keeps using it.

Personally, I like forums for the same reason you like mailing lists.

Agree with regards to forums. I think hyperkitty [1] is probably the best of both worlds, i.e. a forum-like webinterface to mailinglists. Not sure why this is not used more often.

[1] https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty

Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about that!

That's the exact reason I find discord annoying. Instant gratification with its feedback means constant distraction. It might be okay for gaming, but using that for collaboration?

Agreed, a competent Markdown only (with code highlight) messaging system would be better.

> Learning mailinglists is an obstacle compared to learning discord??

I still don't know how to reply to an old discussion started before I joined the mailing list, and I've been using them for 15 years.