What moaners of Discord often forget is that setting up your own IRC channel and monitoring that isn’t the value add for the FOSS project. It’s an additional ma

What moaners of Discord often forget is that setting up your own IRC channel and monitoring that isn’t the value add for the FOSS project. It’s an additional maintenance overhead. So if maintainers choose Discord because it is easier for them to work with (and thus allows them more time to work in the FOSS project) then that’s a good enough reason to use Discord. Furthermore as someone who does run some reasonably popular FOSS projects, I will also use whatever damn platform I chose because it’s my FOSS project.