The use of Discord in free software communities never ceases to depress and disappoint me. I hope this fad dies soon. [1]
I would not risk assuming maintainers of an open source project to have the reflex of jumping into Discord to ask questions.
Anyway, D has a forum and an IRC channel. Scala has a Discourse.
The nice thing about forums is that problems and solutions are searchable by other people in the future. I learned many things by myself thanks to this. I would not like to live in a world where you need to engage with people all the time, asking the same questions again and again, to use some tool or some programming language.
And yet I can’t access several month old threads. When I try to open them, they’re in a perpetually-loading state, with gray rectangles in place of text. Old-style forums are a lot more durable and more neatly organised.
Discord search is fuzzy, limited by time, and you are unable to delete old messages without a hack which puts your account at risk of a permanent ban. Discord is terrible.
I would not risk assuming maintainers of an open source project to have the reflex of jumping into Discord to ask questions.
Anyway, D has a forum and an IRC channel. Scala has a Discourse.
The nice thing about forums is that problems and solutions are searchable by other people in the future. I learned many things by myself thanks to this. I would not like to live in a world where you need to engage with people all the time, asking the same questions again and again, to use some tool or some programming language.
[1] https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...