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I'm really glad I pushed Reactiflux to use Discord when Slack decided to kick them out, it's an awesome product and it's great to see that many open source proj
by vjeux 9y ago
I'm really glad I pushed Reactiflux to use Discord when Slack decided to kick them out, it's an awesome product and it's great to see that many open source projects decided to do the same and thrive there :)
- andybak 9y agoShouldn't open source projects, you know, be using open source projects?
- vjeux 9y agoMy view is that you should be using the best available service. If it happens to be open source, then it's great but if it's not, it shouldn't be a blocker. I will not stop promoting the open source projects I'm working on on Twitter and Facebook just because they happen to not be open source. At the time where Reactiflux needed to find a new home, I tried a ton of alternatives, both open source and closed source and the general level of quality for all of them was a huge step down from Slack, except for Discord which actually felt better.
- lttlrck 9y agoSo long as when picking the best the ability to preserve the history for future contributors, when switching again is considered, then that’s reasonable. But these tools have a tendency to make that very hard for obvious reasons.
- blocked_again 9y ago> If it happens to be open source, then it's great but if it's not, it shouldn't be a blocker. Awesome. What all open source projects you evaluated? Are you really telling that there are no open source projects that are as good as Discord out there?
- vjeux 9y agoAlso, what I've observed is that infrastructure tends to be a good fit for open source but not products. React is open source but Discord is not even though it's using React. Git is open source but Github is not.