Given some similar issues, why is it some projects still use IRC then?
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boatswain@infosec.pub 1 day agoSeriously. It’s beyond painful when some open source project only uses Discord for communication. You have to hope that you post your question at a time when the right people are online, and that there’s not a more interesting conversation going on, otherwise it just gets lost. Index that whole dataset.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
there’s a difference between using irc for livetime troubleshooting and not having a forum at all and directing everyone to your livechat discord. i’m sure some sicko out there has run an OSS project on only IRC, but their project likely got no traction because a history of problemsolving posts is important in open source. generally speaking, you need:
- a wiki
- a static indexable searchable forum
- a live chat place for real time communication for novel problems
too many projects these days only have that last one in the form of discord
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Because IRC is awesome, always has been
AugustWest@lemm.ee 23 hours ago
For projects I am involved with all irc chats are archived and searchable. There is nothing private, no registration needed and searchable.
Quite a bit different.
boatswain@infosec.pub 1 day ago
That would be equally annoying. Probably a better signal to noise ratio on IRC though; Discord descends into memes almost instantly.
Peffse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve always wanted to contribute to The Cutting Room Floor wiki but they hide registration behind a Discord server bot that will give the registration code.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 hours ago
I’ve seen a few projects doing just that with www.answeroverflow.com and they have come up in my web searches. Not really a solution but at least a stopgap.