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I donno, it's been working pretty well for us so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The chat started off as a Telegram chat for some of us working on the Rust VST crate, but as we
by crs0 5y ago
I donno, it's been working pretty well for us so far ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The chat started off as a Telegram chat for some of us working on the Rust VST crate, but as we started discussing wider Rust audio topics, we found that the lack of "topics"/channels/whatever wasn't great. For better or worse, we chose Discord to migrate to, and it solved the channels issue for us.
Migrating a community like this is a tough call in the first place; there's always going to be some people that don't want to use or install yet another chat app. Our goal was to fragment the community as little as possible, and a fair amount of people at the time already used Discord for other stuff. So, Discord it was.
I think if we were migrating today I'd push harder to move to something open (probably Matrix?), but as of right now Discord has been a decent enough platform.
- blendergeek 5y agoUnsolicited advice: Bridge the entire community to Matrix. Matrix allows rooms and communities from other services to be bridged in so that discussion can continue with people still tied to proprietary platforms. The Pine64 community has done this very well and I regularly use their chats via Matrix while others use IRC, Discord, or Telegram.
- crs0 5y agoNoted. I haven't really looked into these bridges quite yet, but it is probably worth looking into sometime. I'll have to look into how well the bridges work; I don't know if I'd be too excited if all the cross-platform messages just showed up as a bot message with the user's name prepended to the message? Plus, it seems like it would be yet another thing to pay attention to for moderation/administration purposes (make sure something doesn't break, make sure nothing nefarious isn't going on in each server, etc). I will bring it up to the other admins/mods of the discord, though.