Recently I accidentally made a Fediverse post which went viral:
stop using discord for your open source communities
That post is short, punchy, opinionated, and prescriptive, which I suspect is the cause for its virality.
Unfortunately, like many micro-blog posts, it lacks nuance, which many replies highlighted. I made the post to vent my frustration at needing to join a Discord server to interact with a community, so it is far from a measured critique of the subject.
This blog post is an attempt to address those nuances in greater detail. This is not an exhaustive analysis, and I’ve resolved to not let “perfect” be the enemy of “done”.
High school teacher here: can confirm, students have zero understanding of how to use files 🙄 - this, all while the geriatrics who preach 👏 “oh kids with the computers!!! They know the computers don’t dontcha know? I’ll never forget my granddaughter programming my VCR, kids just get it!”
Those people are the ones doing away with basic computer science and typing classes (they also can’t type and also claim they can’t type on their phones)