ono

The interface is the best I know of, a lot like pre-Microsoft github. Especially important to me is that It doesn’t intercept my browser’s built-in shortcuts like github now does, or require javascript or bury things under submenus like gitlab does.

The promise of federation is appealing, too.

I plan to use it for new public projects, and might even move my old ones over.

• Terrible format for archiving knowledge
• Terrible tool for retrieving knowledge
• Locks community access behind a corporate license agreement
• Hands control of community-created content to a corporation
• Prevents indexing by web search engines
• Antithetical to interoperability
• Privacy-hostile

A web forum is far better in most cases. If you can’t manage to run your own, there are plenty of lemmy servers that will do it for you. Even an email list (with searchable archives) would be better than Discord.

If you have collaborative documents that outgrow the forum format, use a wiki.

If real-time chat is needed, irc or matrix.

A project hosting its community on Discord is a project that won’t get my contributions.

Please don’t ever do that.

It bombards everyone with noise and wastes everyone’s screen space. (Much like abusing a username field by adding your life story to it.)

If people currently on a primitive platform want to participate in this one, they should learn to use the tools, or at least respect the local conventions.