Because it works, its easy to appoint anyone to help with moderation without risking much, and a large part of the tech community has an account
> The SerenityOS Discord server is now 5000 members strong!
> Less than a year ago, we were an IRC channel with ~160 peak concurrent users.
> Super happy that we made the move, as it allowed us to scale both our processes and the community itself!
Is that true? I don’t, and was under the impression that Discord was a “gamer” thing.
I’ve never been to a Comic-Con, I don’t play games, I don’t watch “Linus Tech Tips” — or YouTube at all — and I’ve been deeply involved in OSS for three decades.
Multiple people here are pointing out reality to you but you're seemingly insistent that your view is the only valid one. shrug
This conversation reminds me of the when people built Facebook-only communities because “everyone is on Facebook”.
Look, you can make that point all you want but it's not particularly relevant here. All we're clearing up is your idea that Discord is "for nerds" only, which it's not.
> This conversation reminds me of the when people built Facebook-only communities because “everyone is on Facebook”.
Note that I am not saying that people should de-facto build on Discord, and I'd appreciate it if you could read my earlier comments where I noted my opinion of Discord rather than trying to puts words in my mouth.
That’s both uninviting, and what I anticipated.
It also doesn’t represent a subculture that’s synonymous with or even inclusive of the broader professional OSS community.
Since then I've joined many other Discord "servers", and have it installed on my phone. I find this very useful to keep track of what's going on in some fields, though I don't have time to participate much. At least two of those servers are essential to my current research software project. I couldn't do it without the information there.
It's a great pity that public Discord channels are not generally archived on the web for search and reading, the way public mailing lists are.