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by eatonphil 1631 days ago
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.
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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.
Ah, that sucks. First I've heard of that happening. Maybe try with a new email or with the email+suffix@ hack?
Try to recover the account via email?
Looks like you got in? I see someone with your name in there now.
Sorry to be "that guy", but why Discord and not Matrix?
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!

Go where your users already are is a pretty basic best practice.
What is Matrix? It's an answer to your question and I am genuinely curious.
FOSS self hostable messenger with e2e encryption
Will check it out, looks interesting.
Easier to use?