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[Jonah Aragon <jonah AT triplebit.net>]

Discord has a number of benefits outside of "a more modern interface"
that makes it a nicer platform for community discussion. Multimedia
messages, moderation tools and user roles, unlimited members, search
functionality and backlog, syntax highlighting and markdown support, a
massive amount of integrations into other platforms, and private
channels to name a few. Not to mention the massive familiarity of
Discord among both open-source developers
(https://discordapp.com/open-source) and gamers, who are honestly both
probably our biggest demographics for a project like this. People
already have a Discord account, we might as well be accessible to
them. Also it's free (cost-wise) forever. Not many open source
projects can match even half these features.

But nobody is forcing you to join Discord in any case.

Jonah

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 1:37 PM Famicoman <famicoman AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree with all of the points re: Discord being a bad tool for a project 
> like OpenNIC with its closed software. I'm more than happy with the IRC 
> channel bridged to Matrix if I want something of a more modern interface.
>
> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018, 2:31 PM Al Beano <albino AT autistici.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> -Dan Q
>>>
>>>
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