4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right

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?

    • tron@midwest.social
      10·
      11 months ago

      Element is just a client, while Matrix is the chat protocol. But yeah, I have recently switched my discord server to a matrix instance and its been pretty great. Some pushback by users who didn’t care about privacy or security, but overall the tech is solid. We didn’t like that discord was moderating private chats and they don’t offer any type of encryption.

    • Camelbeard@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      Open source communities have been around longer than the internet, so they can manage fine without discord.

      Also don’t you just join by submitting code or bug reports or other things?

    • Veloxization@yiffit.net
      3·
      11 months ago

      I think the point here is that anything that can be indexed by search engines or archival crawlers would be better, so not Matrix either. Forums, for example. Like what happens if the Discord community gets deleted due to whatever circumstances? All of that gathered knowledge will be just gone with no way to recover or search for it.

    • TechNom (nobody)@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Anything else that can:

      1. Segregate topics clearly, without stuffing all of it into a single stream
      2. Can be queried from a web search engine.

      Discourse is a great choice - it meets both criteria. Even phpbb meets the requirements.

      Even Zulip is objectively better than Discord. It meets point 1 very well. I don’t know how well it does in point 2.