I personally don’t like LaTeX for documentation because it doesn’t benefit much from advanced features of LaTeX, while being more difficult to read/write than Markdown.
Discord is great for building a community because it’s the defacto chat service for communities. It replaced IRC and does that quite well. Having a place to casually chat with people more invested in the project has its advantages.
Now I really dislike it if they think discord can replace a wiki. Iirc discord added a wiki-like feature a while ago and it’s terrible because it’s not indexable by search engines.
I think you give Discord too much credit even with that. They’re closed source and have very little openness with their data. We have no clue how they store and archive our data and conversations, or what they do with it. I don’t think the open source community should trust Discord an inch.
I’m really hoping an open source alternative starts gaining traction.
A agree with everything you just wrote. Discord is the platform of choice for many projects because most people are already there, so it increases engagement (and often enough some people actually ask for an official discord).
I personally prefer projects to use matrix, despite all it’s faults. Some already do.
I personally don’t like LaTeX for documentation because it doesn’t benefit much from advanced features of LaTeX, while being more difficult to read/write than Markdown.
Discord is great for building a community because it’s the defacto chat service for communities. It replaced IRC and does that quite well. Having a place to casually chat with people more invested in the project has its advantages.
Now I really dislike it if they think discord can replace a wiki. Iirc discord added a wiki-like feature a while ago and it’s terrible because it’s not indexable by search engines.
I think you give Discord too much credit even with that. They’re closed source and have very little openness with their data. We have no clue how they store and archive our data and conversations, or what they do with it. I don’t think the open source community should trust Discord an inch.
I’m really hoping an open source alternative starts gaining traction.
A agree with everything you just wrote. Discord is the platform of choice for many projects because most people are already there, so it increases engagement (and often enough some people actually ask for an official discord).
I personally prefer projects to use matrix, despite all it’s faults. Some already do.
I’ve not heard of matrix before. Looking it up, it looks pretty cool. Kind of a terrible name tbh.