2. Discord will go away one day and so will all the accumulated knowledge
3. People who aren't directly looking for your project won't find it. It's will have no search footprint. You have to actively seek out the Discord to discover that that's activity there.
"Most people" don't already have it. Only a fairly specific handful of demographics.
> "Most people" don't already have it. Only a fairly specific handful of demographics.
This just shows how in-a-bubble people can be. I'm trying to think of a single person outside of my hardcore gamer friends that I know who would have Discord - drawing a blank.
The problem is that information in Discord is locked away and is completely inaccessible.
As an example. An Elixir library I'm using, Ash, had its support forum on Discord. Just recently they moved it to a proper forum. Here's the immediate result [1]:
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Moving to ElixirForum just benefited me. I googled elixir ash registry to understand what it is and if I still need it (I ended up with it from an example somewhere). The top result was this excellent question and answer
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A forum is always nicer, and is accessible to more people.
2. Discord will go away one day and so will all the accumulated knowledge
3. People who aren't directly looking for your project won't find it. It's will have no search footprint. You have to actively seek out the Discord to discover that that's activity there.
"Most people" don't already have it. Only a fairly specific handful of demographics.