pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[–] ono@lemmy.ca 306 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (15 children)

Terrible format for archiving knowledge
Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
Prevents indexing by web search engines
Antithetical to interoperability
Privacy-hostile

A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can't manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.

If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.

If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.

A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won't get my contributions.

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Perfectly summarized and the stance everyone should take for the wellbeing of any community. Look at cs.rin.ru for example.

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