Comment by einpoklum

> Nobody wants to register on some random weird site

1. It's the project's web forum. https://forums.fooproject.org/ . Not random at all. If you're lucky, your registration for fooproject works for the forum as well.

2. Well, we don't like registering with a large corporation either.

> and figure that sites navigation,

Suppose it's a web forum, one of the trusty varieties from the 2000's. What's there to figure out? The exact placement of settings in the user profile pages? You'll live.

> let alone their privacy/data policies.

In this day and age, the effective assumption is: It's all potentially public and the US government keeps a copy forever. Wish it were otherwise.

... and actually, the privacy is typically better on smaller independent platforms than on large ones. The large ones are probably already hooked up to the NSA, while for the smaller ones it's just a potential.

> Discord/Reddit/Slack/etc... are easy to use.

Slack is a painful experience, and not even that easy .

Reddit... yes, but there's not much of a UI to be difficult.

Discord - I have almost no experience with it TBH.

> People are comfortable using them.

No, they're not. Some are. Those who aren't, tend not to use them unless they have to.

> They provide a more uniform experience across different servers/subreddits/etc...

A web forum is a pretty uniform thing. I hope you're not complaining that not all forums are controlled by some huge single company...