Programmer Humor

All you idiots telling FOSS maintainers to do something else, know that we don't want to maintain yet another server. Aside from Discord, Zulip is the next best thing.

Why is everyone hating Discord? It's pretty neat platform when all the features used properly.

This entire thread is just a bunch of old nerds screaming at the tide.

Hate stuff all you want. It isn't going to change anything. "People should do this or that". It must be exhausting to be so angry at something but do nothing about it.

Imagine using all this energy to really understand while people use Discord and try to make something better.

OR join these projects you apparently like and volunteer to do the extra work to publisher useful documentation. Unless of course you never intend to be useful to FLOSS and just want everyone else to do the work for you.

OR you can continue to complain and get nowhere while completely alienating an entire generation of developers. They'll eventually forget you exist while they're busy making the future happen.

I'm sure the folks that are doing the work aren't hanging out on Lemmy complaining about kids these days.

IMO Discord is the best platform for this right now, which is unfortunate. The little I've tried Matrix has not been very impressive (single chatrooms, slow, bad self-hosting experience IMO), IRC is a bit better (though very dated in many regards, esp. user management) but still doesn't have the categories/channels that make discord nice. And most other chats are proprietary with discord just being the best one.

Which one would you like them to use?