Forums are a better technology but come with hosting costs

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

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

Don't talk to discord users, they have cooties.

THIS.

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

This article is two years old, and perhaps discord have improved their accessibility, since this user find it more accessible then matrix. Yes, it's a single usercase, but worth mentioning nonetheless.

I think there are other arguments against Discord that haven't been mentioned: data privacy. I know there was an instance where Discord collected user without their consent, and that is enough for me to avoid the platform.

I much rather use matrix or the horridly old IRC protocol than Discord. Or forums. Or just plain old issues!

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I have an existing community of thousands of users on discord, attempts to migrate to other platforms have failed. What would you suggest?

The community was inherited and existed when I became maintainer.

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