Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
by Kye on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:51PM
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Discord has almost twice the active users and probably not a great deal of overlap with GitHub. And people won't necessarily want to join a community they would join on one with an account made on the other.
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Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
by cowtools on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:54PM
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I get the impression that discord users are mostly children and not programmers.
While there might be some overlap as discord users grow up and decide to keep their discord account, I'm guessing that even in that case they will have a separate github/gitlab/whatever account for their professional or unprofessional programming.
Re:Forum Channels: A space for organized conversations
by gorbypark on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @03:04PM
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There are a ton of very active programming related channels, mostly for open source projects. It's quickly replacing freenode as the place to go to chat about projects (love it or hate it). In fact, it's markdown support for code blocks is unmatched (imo and compared to Slack/Teams/etc) and is actually very nice to use as a place to discuss programming.