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”.
Please god let’s go back to traditional forums. Heck, stuff like [that which shall not be named] and Lemmy are sort of the “modern equivalent” although I’m not sure why we needed to stop using traditional forums in the first place.
Because it’s, honestly, just easier to have the forums aggregated in one place instead of having to visit and keep track of 15 different forums on 15 different sites.