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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects
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this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2024
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If you're desperate for a discord-like experience (because lets face it, irc and mailing lists arent very flashy anymore!) you can try:
~~Yes you wont have voice/vodeo chat for these but IMO that's rarely useful anyway. And if you DO need it then you can use stuff like teamspeak or zoom***~~
~~***yes i know the issues with these options but for devs you dont really ever need to use meetings for very long and sometimes using a shitty free service with all you need is better than self hosting your own. Maybe Nextcloud talk can work?~~
Some good arguments made for FOSS voice/meeting apps, and why VC and meetings are more important to the FOSS workflow than I thought :)
Jitsi Meet for zoom replacement
Jitsi is amazing. Even during 2020 it always has worked way better than Zoom for me, and I haven't even tried hosting it myself.
I think that's actually what discord should be used for. It's one of the better platforms for voice/video/text chat. It's mostly just when people use discord for what should be a public forum or wiki that it becomes a problem.
And sure, it's not a great place for open source developers to do all their communication in, because being able to reference things in the future if a project lead closes the server is important. But it's probably fine for coding sprints and meetings here and there as long as someone is taking notes to be documented elsewhere. Discord is arguably better than zoom for that use case.
How about Revolt? It's open source and it's pretty much a Discord clone.