right there with you. when a project/repo advertises discord as it’s primary/sole means of communication between and with developers I let out a big sigh and move on to something else.
Are there particular mediums of conversation that get you excited though?
Honestly, I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of discourse forums for tech related things and I’m all for that. Discourse is documented well and maintained openly, it’s indexable by search engines and you can visit and use discourse-based web forums using browsers that aren’t capable of js rendering (think lynx). The last bit is a nice-to-have for me, but just being indexable is huge.
In 10 years, I would hate it if every answer I gave or got from a developer is lost to an endless abyss of messages buried deep in an obscure discord guild that a user would have to sift through only after making an account with and installing specific chat software. I hate there being so many hurdles in front of just getting answers. That’s a good tl;dr as to why discord is on my shitlist for support/development discussion platforms.
