pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 9 months ago

Why do you assume only "kids" use discord?

I'd understand your reaction if this were a defense of outdated bullshit that looked like it was invented in the previous century and looked the part like IRC, mailinglists, phpbb, usenet, ... But matrix is from the 2010s. It has threads, video calls, voice channels, emojis, emoji reactions, and other stuff I don't use. It's evolving. There are many clients (web, mobile, desktop, CLI) for many OSes, etc. The only thing it doesn't have is VC seed money and large amounts of marketing.

But that's not the point. The point is opensource projects using closed source products that are controlled by a single, commercial entity.

OR join these projects you apparently like and volunteer to do the extra work to publisher useful documentation. Unless of course you never intend to be useful to FLOSS and just want everyone else to do the work for you.

That's it: if they use discord these people (including me) won't. "If you don't use discord, you aren't useful to opensource and want everyone else to do the work for you" is quite the take 😂

OR you can continue to complain and get nowhere while completely alienating an entire generation of developers. They’ll eventually forget you exist while they’re busy making the future happen.

L.O.L so the "previous generation" is just sitting around complaining? No work is ever done? The linux kernel is written by teenagers and 20 year olds, rust, PHP, javascript, W3C, firefox, conferences, etc. are all done by the next generation with absolutely no input from the previous generation (whatever that means)? At 40 people either drop dead or start shouting at clouds?

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