Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by cycomanic on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:50AM (#29712823)

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.

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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by NeutralForest on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:54AM (#29712866)

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.

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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by cycomanic on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @08:06AM (#29713387)

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

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Re:Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects by NeutralForest on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @06:13AM (#29723829)

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

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