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[Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org>]

I've joined the Discord and complained there but I think it's worth voicing my concerns here as well — especially seeing as I'm complaining that Discord is a bad tool to use for community discourse.

To communicate using Discord, users *must* run a proprietary program. Discord have taken steps to make the development of libre third-party clients difficult/impossible. This alone should rule it out for any kind of OpenNIC communication. 

Excluding users who don't want to use non-free software from discussions is a bad direction for OpenNIC to take. I understand that the discord 'server' is described as being 'unofficial', but it is run by two fairly high-profile members of the OpenNIC community and therefore has a certain degree of validity. It will inevitably result in discussion moving to a platform that some users cannot/will not access. 

albino

On 6 July 2018 23:42:35 BST, Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:

On second thought, I decided to create one, since Discord servers are hardly a finite resource, just to see if anyone would join. 

Feel free to join https://discord.gg/6qTNcEE, and we’ll see if that gains any traction. 

Jonah

On Jul 6, 2018, at 5:30 PM, Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net> wrote:

No.

It’d be convenient for me since I’ve been using Discord a lot as well for some other semi-related projects, but I don’t think anyone would join besides you and I. Otherwise I’d be happy to pull one together.

Jonah

On Jul 6, 2018, at 3:52 PM, Daniel Quintiliani <danq AT runbox.com> wrote:

Hi,

I remember some time ago there was discussion of moving OpenNIC IRC to Discord, and the idea was shot down due to Discord being closed-source. I've been using Discord a lot more lately, and was wondering if an unofficial OpenNIC Discord was ever created in addition to the IRC channel.

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-Dan Q

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