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I agree with you. At the same time, people use GitHub and see no issue with it.

jraph 5y ago
I definitely see an issue with this. Fortunately, at least GitHub is readable without running non-free code and is searchable. I guess you can also participate with one of those alternative clients. You are still not in control of your community, and I'd like this monopoly to vanish.
- tshaddox 5y ago
  Discord is readable from a web browser just like GitHub is.
  - PixyMisa 5y ago
    Discord is not really readable at all, in any format. It's a mess.
  - m4rtink 5y ago
    You can read Github project pages just fine without logging in, not so much for most if not all discord server instances.
  - kelnos 5y ago
    Not really. GitHub is also "readable" through a search engine, and can be used (read-only) without signing in. GitHub also allows you to use automated tools to read and manipulate the data stored there. Discord does not allow you to do any of those things.
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- iamstupidsimple 5y ago
  GitHub.com is almost entirely non-free code, when seen through a web browser. Unless you're talking about just the git portion?
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    It is more of the content inside GitHub is widely accessible without needing to log in whereas Discord are not really accessible and often would need "invitation link" to find those servers. GitHub is far more public in this sense than Discord is. Discord/Slack is a instant message system, far different, than forums style which are "static", which make archival extremely difficult to do in Discord/Slack.
cjaybo 5y ago
Probably because you're nowhere near as "locked-in" to GH. You can move your source code and all of its history to another hosting platform in minutes with git. If you want to move your Slack/Discord community to another platform, there is no easy way to export the content AFAIK.
- 542458 5y ago
  There are third party whole-server backup bots for Discord. Import elsewhere is a different problem though.
- slimsag 5y ago
  Not true. Good luck exporting the issues, pull requests, comments, discussions, wikis, etc. and bringing those to another platform. Ironically (and I am not defending them), Slack[0] is the only one of the three that has an official way to export all messages. GitHub does not, unless you're counting their API, but then maybe you want to consider Discord things like this[1]? [0] https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-worksp... [1] https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
  - minhazm 5y ago
    Gitlab can import pretty much all of those things from Github. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html
    - slimsag 5y ago
      Wow, TIL! Can't believe I missed that, thank you.

I definitely see an issue with this. Fortunately, at least GitHub is readable without running non-free code and is searchable. I guess you can also participate with one of those alternative clients. You are still not in control of your community, and I'd like this monopoly to vanish.

tshaddox 5y ago
Discord is readable from a web browser just like GitHub is.
- PixyMisa 5y ago
  Discord is not really readable at all, in any format. It's a mess.
- m4rtink 5y ago
  You can read Github project pages just fine without logging in, not so much for most if not all discord server instances.
- kelnos 5y ago
  Not really. GitHub is also "readable" through a search engine, and can be used (read-only) without signing in. GitHub also allows you to use automated tools to read and manipulate the data stored there. Discord does not allow you to do any of those things.
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iamstupidsimple 5y ago
GitHub.com is almost entirely non-free code, when seen through a web browser. Unless you're talking about just the git portion?
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  It is more of the content inside GitHub is widely accessible without needing to log in whereas Discord are not really accessible and often would need "invitation link" to find those servers. GitHub is far more public in this sense than Discord is. Discord/Slack is a instant message system, far different, than forums style which are "static", which make archival extremely difficult to do in Discord/Slack.

cjaybo 5y ago

Probably because you're nowhere near as "locked-in" to GH. You can move your source code and all of its history to another hosting platform in minutes with git. If you want to move your Slack/Discord community to another platform, there is no easy way to export the content AFAIK.

542458 5y ago
There are third party whole-server backup bots for Discord. Import elsewhere is a different problem though.
slimsag 5y ago
Not true. Good luck exporting the issues, pull requests, comments, discussions, wikis, etc. and bringing those to another platform. Ironically (and I am not defending them), Slack[0] is the only one of the three that has an official way to export all messages. GitHub does not, unless you're counting their API, but then maybe you want to consider Discord things like this[1]? [0] https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data https://slack.com/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-worksp... [1] https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter https://github.com/Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter
- minhazm 5y ago
  Gitlab can import pretty much all of those things from Github. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html
  - slimsag 5y ago
    Wow, TIL! Can't believe I missed that, thank you.