Honestly… I don’t mind discord. I’ve seen their “forums” feature actually work pretty well, and the roles system is just customizable enough to be useful, with

Honestly… I don’t mind discord. I’ve seen their “forums” feature actually work pretty well, and the roles system is just customizable enough to be useful, with about being annoying to configure. Yeah, there’s obvious problems with it being a closed community, gated by Discord the company. I do wish content was exposed to the wider internet, like how forums (phpBB etc) work. But I get it, if your passion is a FOSS project, you want to think as little about the “other stuff” that only takes away precious free hours you’d rather put into your FOSS project. Discord handles most of that for free/close to free/with donations collected for you from your “server” members. There’s a space for a FOSS project to fill, and matrix is SO close. It needs a push, but I think the dominoes could totally fall in its favour given some critical mass of projects using it.