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> None of the alternatives you mentioned to Discord, for example, are likely to already have a client installed for the vast majority of developers You seem to
by kuschku 4y ago
> None of the alternatives you mentioned to Discord, for example, are likely to already have a client installed for the vast majority of developers
You seem to have a very distorted view of developers, the vast majority of free software developers are going to have either an IRC client or a Matrix client installed already.
- oorza 4y agoI've never seen Matrix discussed outside of HackerNews. In the last five years or so, the reaction to people finding out I still use IRC is either "What is IRC?" or "People still use that? Brings me back..." I don't know a single person in any professional context that doesn't have one of Slack, Teams, or Discord installed. I may be overstating how much smaller your pool is, but to say that choosing Discord or Slack doesn't grossly expand your reach is just naive.
- kuschku 4y agoIn my pool, having slack or teams installed is less likely than having an IRC or Matrix client installed. So it's probably just that, different bubbles that rarely intersect.