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Stop Using Discord for Your Open source Communities | mattcen's mumblings (blog.mattcen.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by noodlejetski to c/foss

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Recently I accidentally made a Fediverse post which went viral:

stop using discord for your open source communities

That post is short, punchy, opinionated, and prescriptive, which I suspect is the cause for its virality.

Unfortunately, like many micro-blog posts, it lacks nuance, which many replies highlighted. I made the post to vent my frustration at needing to join a Discord server to interact with a community, so it is far from a measured critique of the subject.

This blog post is an attempt to address those nuances in greater detail. This is not an exhaustive analysis, and I’ve resolved to not let “perfect” be the enemy of “done”.

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[–] SkepticElliptic 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wonder if it's due to younger people's lack of understanding file structure. All modern operating systems offer the user the blackhole theory of storage where you just plop all of your files into one big unorganized storage bin.

It's so bad that computer science students are entering college without understanding what folders/ directories are.

So it makes sense that people who use discord are comfortable with the idea of just having one big pile of discussions instead of having them broken up separately.

Unfortunately, it's a big mess to navigate.

[–] Mantis 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s so bad that computer science students are entering college without understanding what folders/ directories are.

These are dark times...

[–] Juno 10 points 1 year ago

High school teacher here: can confirm, students have zero understanding of how to use files 🙄 - this, all while the geriatrics who preach 👏 "oh kids with the computers!!! They know the computers don't dontcha know? I'll never forget my granddaughter programming my VCR, kids just get it!"

Those people are the ones doing away with basic computer science and typing classes (they also can't type and also claim they can't type on their phones)

[–] SkepticElliptic 4 points 1 year ago

That's what happens when you give kids ipads and Chromebooks with no freedom. Anything under the hood gets obfuscated in order to tightly control everything the user does.

It's sort of like how you had to kind of know how your car worked back when they were a new thing. Now you get in and it just works.

[–] nickb333 3 points 1 year ago

This sounds like the current trend with Outlook. Nobody at my $DAY,_JOB seems to bother organising stuff. It just gets left perpetually in the inbox and they all use the super search functionality.