Using Discord for Open-Source Projects

2 · Bozhidar Batsov · Oct. 23, 2021, 11:41 a.m.
You might have noticed that this year I’ve been promoting Discord as the main chat for my bigger OSS projects like RuboCop and CIDER. You may have been surprised by this move, as Discord originated in the gaming community and is still mostly associated with it. That’s why I decided to explain my reasoning in this short article. I discovered Discord at the beginning of the year, and I like most people I assumed it was just some chat for gamers.1 However, after playing with it for a few months I f...