Imagine being in a corporate environment trying to implement an OSS into your platform and having to tell your 50 yo teammate: "Oh yeah, just pop in this Discord server real quick to see any relevant info". Instant credibility loss
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The loss of credibility is not because it's discord,. specifically.
It's because the project thinks a chat platform is an appropriate way to document a project. I would feel the same way if someone told me to get on IRC for docs, or Slack.
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I've literally never seen a project remotely interesting that has their documentation on discord
Revanced was one. Good thing they wisen up and have documentations now, though it's just a set of .md files in their git repo.
Markdown in the repository is a pretty good way to keep documentation in sync with the source.
what is it
Modded version of youtube app that let's you kill all the ads, among many other wonderful features. However, every 6 months or so, youtube does something where the videos stop loading effectively killing the app. I usually switch between vanced and revanced every 6 or so months because one has so far always worked when the other gets the axe. By the time that one goes down, the other one is back up and running.
To be fair, I could say the same, but is probably a biased sample.
I have other red flags, like only distributing on docker, that I've tried, and tried again, and found that it's a sign of a badly run project. But I can't state any confidence on the discord based rule, because I've never tried to make any run.
The docker thing really grinds my gears. I see it as the ultimate "works on my machine" mentality. Basically they can't be arsed to write software that is robust to changes in hosting platform.
I have dealt with "only works in kubernetes" because developers couldn't be bothered to make it even work on docker without all the hidden orchestration.
So, instead of documentation, they just make the service work in that one specific environment.
The Gagguino project is a counterpoint to this. They have some extremely limited documentation, but to really build one you probably are going to need to dig into Discord. I hate it. The project is really cool, though, and I'm building one right now.
My biggest nightmare is one day you will go on to a random website and when you press "contact us" it opens an invite to a discord server.
or better yet a QR code to scan in the Discord App. Great way to get your account credentials stolen
Stay the fuck away from anything that's organized over discord. Mod abuse and Nazis are a guarantee.
What? I agree that discord is a bad platform but those aren't a guarantee
Just when I finally think I've found one which is safe, I am painfully reminded of my place.
People organizing on Discord when Matrix exists 🙄
Its the same as the GitHub problem though, if you want to get community involvement then the necessary evil is to go where the people are. We use GitHub and Discord as that is where the vast majority of our users are, our Lemmy community sees barely any activity over our subreddit, we have barely anyone clamouring for Matrix or IRC. Our Mastodon is probably our only large 'fedi or fedi—adjacent' platform and thats because we drew the line at twitter. Would I love to get away from Discord? Absolutely, but that limits our ability to have an active community whilst we are still growing the project.
I'm involved in a few projects that are organized over private Discord servers. No mod abuse or Nazis involved.
I am already happy if there is any documentation at all. And I am euphoric if it doesn't suck, i.e. sufficiently detailed and up to date.
So I guess Discord is better than nothing. But sure it's a turn off.
Log into discord, copy the documentation and create a PR with it. (Or make a wiki?)
You old farts should keep up with times. /s
Preach!
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