I hear the 'no Discord for OSS' argument, I do.
...but currently, there is no a better alternative for live discussion. There isn't even a worse alternative that a critical mass of people actually want to use... is there?
npub12jq5ktly2vht4w467kall6e0wuruu3dfy2mm473gqyslynxau3fsakhq6m (npub12jq…hq6m) makes a pretty compelling argument in his post:
https://alexn.org/blog/2022/04/09/scala-gitter-discord-mistake/
... until you click the gitter link at the bottom and it doesn't work. Sadly this is my usual Gitter experience.
Show me a viable alternative (low hassle, with users), and I'm there.
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