It's annoying that such a large portion of the open source community still use Discord. Even if we disregard the recent events with ID leaks and such, there's so much wrong with using a proprietary platform like Discord to chat.

I'm of the mind that if people want to use one thing over another, they're of course free to do so. At the same time though, Discord should really be the antithesis of many projects' goals in terms of privacy and openness.

The only explanation I can think of is that alternatives truly must be horrifyingly terrible to use, which would certainly be an impressive feat. I assume the alternatives are like what ReactOS is to Windows--a very ambitious goal, but also not in any way a viable option if you actually want to use your computer.

@Phobos projects of certain size like, say, batocera or openmw, pretty much run on engagement. since there's no way a small team and few people who can be assed to use irc when they usually don't can test and develop for every possible configuration without putting up something like the cpan testers interface which costs time and money
so the network effect kicks in and you can move at glacial pace or use dicksore. projects that give a shit usually segment the relevant discussions to git forges and bridge to irc or matrix too.
there's no excuses for small projects on discord, or any other platform really. not everything needs a community
and then the big ones are either satanic or zased with nothing in between and no room for discourse

@menherahair @Phobos network effect is the boot on the throats of the downtrodden - an old story in a new font