I have never used Discord and never will. No project has ever been able to change my stance on it.

I think you misspelled "Please use the appropriate tool for a specific job"

This article has a few primary arguments for not using Discord—

• because it is proprietary software
• because it has poor accessibility
• because control over moderation and other administrative tools is ultimately in the hands of Discord rather than the community.

I know this opinion is going to be unpopular but here I go anyway.

Other than the accessibility argument, I find these arguments quite weak. Yes, Discord is proprietary software, but the reason it's used is because a lot of people are familiar with it and many people already have Discord accounts.

Although I'm a firm supporter of free software, I also believe that it's more important to use the right software for the job than to idealistically use inferior software just because it happens to be open-source. And yes, I regard most of the alternatives to Discord listed in the article to be inferior solely because they are unfamiliar to users. Sometimes, the superior choice happens to be proprietary and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. That's the way it is sometimes; you can't win every fight, as much as you'd like to.

If your goal is to foster a community of regular users and make it easy for normal users to interact with contributors, there is no choice that will hamper that goal more than using an obscure alternative software that nobody's heard of.

With respect to chat logs and administration tools... for the most part, nobody cares. Discord's tools are sufficient for most groups and few people consider the drawbacks to outweigh the other benefits.

It's getting a bit annoying honestly how people are telling other developers how to run their projects. And often these people don't even contribute anything

I personally hate discord, but I do use slack. Using discord or slack however doesn't make your code any less open source

If people want this, they can set up something for my projects, and convince users to go. If it's successful I'd join too. Otherwise, it's really just focusing on things that dont actually matter much. I've personally been part of a project which died because we focused too much on infrastructure

you shouldn't use discord at all .... I think nowadays it's the only app that uses plain text for all messages avoid discord

THIS.

omg If I have to configure another Matrix mirror bot for something I wanna self host, I swear...

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But I also don't want to make zillions accounts, one for each project, just for a quick question.