• IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Imagine being in a corporate environment trying to implement an OSS into your platform and having to tell your 50 yo teammate: “Oh yeah, just pop in this Discord server real quick to see any relevant info”. Instant credibility loss

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      9 months ago

      The loss of credibility is not because it’s discord,. specifically.

      It’s because the project thinks a chat platform is an appropriate way to document a project. I would feel the same way if someone told me to get on IRC for docs, or Slack.

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      9 months ago

      To be fair, I could say the same, but is probably a biased sample.

      I have other red flags, like only distributing on docker, that I’ve tried, and tried again, and found that it’s a sign of a badly run project. But I can’t state any confidence on the discord based rule, because I’ve never tried to make any run.