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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by cycomanic on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:44AM (#29712789)
The irony being that discord is absolutely horrible for discoverable/searchable history. I would argue the main value of searchable history for FOSS projects is not that you yourself can go back and look at the chats you had, but that it gets indexed by search engines, so one can find the solutions when encountering problems.

That's the big value of mailing lists over most of these chat solutions.

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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by lnxg33k1 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:54AM (#29712861)
I think another value of mailing lists is asynchronicity of conversation and the time that can go in the thought process enriching the conversation, and I think that is unmatchable by any chat protocol/client
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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by hiptobecubic on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:42AM (#29737616)
Yes but it's also the problem. Email is, for the most part, horrible to use. Even the crappiest chat app is nicer in almost every way than email.

People are more thoughtful about email only because it's slow and relatively low volume. You see the same on stack exchange.

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