> I genuinely ask myself: why is "Join our Discord" much more popular than "Join our Reddit"? Let's say the maintainers of Foo and the Debian Foo package disag

> I genuinely ask myself: why is "Join our Discord" much more popular than "Join our Reddit"? Let's say the maintainers of Foo and the Debian Foo package disagree on which plugins should be in the default install. If they have that discussion on a public forum, maybe unhappy people get directed to the conversation, or someone decides to parade a comment around twitter and link it from HN so everyone can see what an asshole you are. Quite possibly with your real name attached. But if you have the same discussion on Discord? Much harder for people to link to, once it's scrolled off the screen it's practically forgotten, and almost nobody uses their real name. And you don't see people screenshotting Discord posts anywhere near as often as they screenshot Twitter posts (although it is possible, of course). I can see how an open source maintainer using their free time to provide unpaid support might find the latter more pleasant.