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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't use Discord actually..

In fact, my most popular project made Slashdot front page 20 years ago, and I was actually using IRC. No help.. Just submitted issues or suggestions. The only donations I got were from people I knew. And donations aren't common for most projects honestly until they get much bigger, or they are operating an online service

There is nothing stopping people setting up communication channels and such on IRC and such though if they don't want to use the others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

what was your popular project then?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Not going to say lol. But it got mentioned in a magazine too.. It wasn't massive.. But, got a lot of attention for a short period.. But honestly, gave it up because I got sick defending it against haters. That being said, the same idea got adopted by a few distros soon after. So it's actually good that I did (as it would have ultimately been a waste of time)