Just a little joke, didn't mean it in a bad way.
> No, it's not, but in my experience, about 50% of the people who contribute code I want to merge avoid proprietary garbage whenever they can. Why increase the friction for them?
PR critical discussions stay on PR. Would be silly to have that discussion off platform if it pertains to an open PR. My point was more aimed at the claim that the historical record should be of any concern to the maintainer.
> There are plenty of options that aren't actively user hostile if you're of the opinion that real time chat is that important.
Discord without verification and without overzealous rules is a good in between. I make sure to not require verification for my project's discord because verification is needless friction when somebody wants to ask a question/advice. The off-platform chat needs to be as frictionless as possible. Other than that I don't see how else a discord can be user hostile.