Comment by smashah
5 years ago
> I'm not sure I got that from his, this needless insult did make me feel that way about yours though.
Just a little joke, didn't mean it in a bad way.
> No, it's not, but in my experience, about 50% of the people who contribute code I want to merge avoid proprietary garbage whenever they can. Why increase the friction for them?
PR critical discussions stay on PR. Would be silly to have that discussion off platform if it pertains to an open PR. My point was more aimed at the claim that the historical record should be of any concern to the maintainer.
> There are plenty of options that aren't actively user hostile if you're of the opinion that real time chat is that important.
Discord without verification and without overzealous rules is a good in between. I make sure to not require verification for my project's discord because verification is needless friction when somebody wants to ask a question/advice. The off-platform chat needs to be as frictionless as possible. Other than that I don't see how else a discord can be user hostile.
Discord does not allow third party clients. In my book that is as user hostile as it gets and due to my FOSSisms I'm effectively barred from using it.
Well I think you'd find that your first barrier would be the fact that most open source projects are run off of GitHub which is a company owned by Microsoft.
Does github limit what clients you're allowed to use with it?