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		NeutralForest on Dec 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects This I don't know tbh, it might just be a network effect: everyone is used to Discord so everybody keeps using it. Personally, I like forums for the same reason you like mailing lists.

cycomanic on Dec 28, 2021 [–]

Agree with regards to forums. I think hyperkitty [1] is probably the best of both worlds, i.e. a forum-like webinterface to mailinglists. Not sure why this is not used more often.

[1] https://gitlab.com/mailman/hyperkitty

NeutralForest on Dec 29, 2021 | [–]

Thanks for sharing, I didn't know about that!

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