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I guess what I'm wondering is, what are people trying to prevent or protect by moving to Discord? On one hand, I don't see Discords as any different to web for

I guess what I'm wondering is, what are people trying to prevent or protect by moving to Discord? On one hand, I don't see Discords as any different to web forums, except with no personal control and the knowledge barriers removed. In that way, they're not really different from the defunct AOL communities or Yahoo Groups of yesteryear, outside of their inability to be conveniently scraped or archived. Can you port your Discord channel to a different platform or self host? On the other, it seems like the people who like it /really/ like it. But then again, people have always liked being gatekeepers, even if they don't really hold the keys and it's not their castle. But that surely isn't all of the appeal?

herpdyderp 3y ago
The things that I can think of: - More people get notified immediately on Discord, and then everyone chimes in. When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue. It becomes even more of a community effort to find solutions. - It's much easier to use a single account for multiple purposes. If everything is on Discord, then a single account is all you need (vs a separate account for GitHub, GitLab, random bulletin boards, etc.)
- jsejcksn 3y ago
  > When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue. You can customize your repository notifications in a granular way, including subscribing to issues (Watch > Custom > Issues), discussions, releases, etc. This is the primary method I use to track OSS releases. More in the GitHub docs: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/setting-up-notifications/configuring-notifications#configuring-your-watch-settings-for-an-individual-repository https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subs...
  - DangitBobby 3y ago
    But people don't do that. Pretty much only the maintainer(s) of a project opt in to be notified of issues on GH. On Discord, by default the channel lights up if a channel has new messages.
JohnFen 3y ago
> I don't see Discords as any different to web forums A rather huge difference is that you have to sign up in order to use Discord. You usually don't in order to search web forums. Signing up for something is a pretty huge ask.

herpdyderp 3y ago

The things that I can think of: - More people get notified immediately on Discord, and then everyone chimes in. When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue. It becomes even more of a community effort to find solutions. - It's much easier to use a single account for multiple purposes. If everything is on Discord, then a single account is all you need (vs a separate account for GitHub, GitLab, random bulletin boards, etc.)

jsejcksn 3y ago
> When I star a repo I don't get notified when anyone opens a new issue. You can customize your repository notifications in a granular way, including subscribing to issues (Watch > Custom > Issues), discussions, releases, etc. This is the primary method I use to track OSS releases. More in the GitHub docs: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subscriptions-and-notifications-on-github/setting-up-notifications/configuring-notifications#configuring-your-watch-settings-for-an-individual-repository https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/managing-subs...
- DangitBobby 3y ago
  But people don't do that. Pretty much only the maintainer(s) of a project opt in to be notified of issues on GH. On Discord, by default the channel lights up if a channel has new messages.

JohnFen 3y ago

> I don't see Discords as any different to web forums A rather huge difference is that you have to sign up in order to use Discord. You usually don't in order to search web forums. Signing up for something is a pretty huge ask.