You’re free to not use Discord for any reason you desire but don’t expect anyone to cater to you. Especially if you aren’t putting in work to support a project.
All I did was confirm that discord has zero merit in terms of privacy, in reply to a comment that merely suspected it. And yeah, I personally find it less than suitable as a point of communication for software projects.
But the only big problem I had with you was pushing the “if you have nothing to hide” fallacy in any shape or form.
There are far more people willing to criticize how open source projects are run than people willing to contribute and it’s just frustrating. Unwarranted criticism contributes a lot to why open source developers stop.
And just look at this whole post’s comments – it’s full of several people demanding/upvoting for comments saying that maintainers need to shift to another platform due to the posters’ personal convictions. Generally speaking, the discourse has been unkind and disrespectful of the time of project maintainers.
But the only big problem I had with you was pushing the “if you have nothing to hide” fallacy in any shape or form.
In >99.99% of cases, I would agree this is a terrible justification. One of extremely few exceptions, IMO, is a community support chat that’s intentionally trying to be open.
Project maintainers just want somewhere cheap/easy/low-effort/accessible to host stuff. Because Discord is the “in” thing right now, contributors are also more likely to lurk in Discord than installing another app.
You’re free to not use Discord for any reason you desire but don’t expect anyone to cater to you. Especially if you aren’t putting in work to support a project.
Where is this coming from?
All I did was confirm that discord has zero merit in terms of privacy, in reply to a comment that merely suspected it. And yeah, I personally find it less than suitable as a point of communication for software projects.
But the only big problem I had with you was pushing the “if you have nothing to hide” fallacy in any shape or form.
There are far more people willing to criticize how open source projects are run than people willing to contribute and it’s just frustrating. Unwarranted criticism contributes a lot to why open source developers stop.
And just look at this whole post’s comments – it’s full of several people demanding/upvoting for comments saying that maintainers need to shift to another platform due to the posters’ personal convictions. Generally speaking, the discourse has been unkind and disrespectful of the time of project maintainers.
In >99.99% of cases, I would agree this is a terrible justification. One of extremely few exceptions, IMO, is a community support chat that’s intentionally trying to be open.
Project maintainers just want somewhere cheap/easy/low-effort/accessible to host stuff. Because Discord is the “in” thing right now, contributors are also more likely to lurk in Discord than installing another app.