[eatonphil]

I host a small Discord for devs hacking on cool tech through my company (for an invite go to https://discord.multiprocess.io). Folks here interested in compilers/databases/emulators/big data/ML are welcome to join, introduce yourself and hang out.

[JonChesterfield]

Fwiw discord was totally unwilling to let me in. 'Something is wrong', asked for an email then told me it was already registered, then asked for a date of birth and told me it's unauthorized.

[eatonphil]

Ah, that sucks. First I've heard of that happening. Maybe try with a new email or with the email+suffix@ hack?

[aspenmayer]

Try to recover the account via email?

[eatonphil]

Looks like you got in? I see someone with your name in there now.

[nerdponx]

Sorry to be "that guy", but why Discord and not Matrix?

[eatonphil]

I wanted to pick the least FOSS-friendly platform around! Just kidding.

I don't really know what to say. I think Discord is more mature than Matrix, though it's great as an IRC(-bridge) client. You're welcome to start your own community on Matrix if you'd like!

[nilsbunger]

Go where your users already are is a pretty basic best practice.

[yonz]

What is Matrix? It's an answer to your question and I am genuinely curious.

[schleck8]

FOSS self hostable messenger with e2e encryption

[yonz]

Will check it out, looks interesting.

[generalizations]

Easier to use?