[Grimburger]

> what easy alternatives can you recommend to them

Github discussions.

A project I follow moved all their Q&A from discord and it's a joy to both search and ask now.

Discord is actively hostile to anyone simply wanting to browse.

[chillfox]

I would much rather engage with a community on Discord than on Github discussions/Reddit/a forum. The inability to easily browse historical posts is a feature to me that makes it much less risky to ask questions and join a community. I don't have to spend a lot of time searching and effort to phrase my questions just right to avoid getting yelled at by someone that I should have used the search instead of posting.

[TeMPOraL]

But then instead of putting X amount of effort up-front to do search, you have to put in 10X amount of effort to join a community and ask someone about the thing. It's not a good trade, IMHO.

[throwaway675309]

In my experience, most people on GitHub discussions seem to be more than happy to help out, and over time it also builds up a reservoir of information that anyone else can tap into. GitHub discussions search is relatively good.

Whereas on discord, you might get a great answer which helps you and anyone who is immediately following that conversation but that's it.

[fomine3]

Gitter is an ignored solution.