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Comments on Why discord and not IRC?

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Why discord and not IRC?

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Seems like the main option for real time chat related to Codidact is Discord.

Were there any other alternatives considered? Why was Discord chosen?

There are older, more established options for real time chat like IRC. In my experience, a lot of people object to Discord on principle. I believe the main issues are:

  • It's not a privacy friendly company
  • The UX of Discord is poor
  • It is very proprietary so it's hard to use custom clients

Many other alternatives, like IRC and Matrix chat do not have these problems. Is there a reason why the Codidact chat was not set up on something like that? For example, why not just use a room on Rizon?

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Michael‭ wrote 7 months ago
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  • The UX of Discord is poor

I assert this is also true for IRC. Matrix is nice if you can find an appropriate homeserver. I agree with your other points, although I have joined the Discord.

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 7 months ago
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Do you mean that the UX of a specific IRC client is poor, or that the protocol itself has poor UX?

Michael‭ wrote 7 months ago
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Good question. Maybe I've just never found a decent client. I had some CLI thing I don't remember, then Firefox's IRC client (remember that?), and then WeeChat for when I need to.

matthewsnyder‭ wrote 7 months ago
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Hexchat is not too bad if you want GUI. For console, I think irssi and weechat are the big ones. But since IRC has been around for a while there's at least a wide selection of clients, many of them on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Internet#IRC_clients

But the question is about why Discord, so we digress :)

cuppajoeman‭ wrote 7 months ago · edited 7 months ago
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I think I've seen communities that have a discord channel where communication is bridged between IRC and discord, maybe something like that could exist so that people who don't want to use discord don't have to, but can still chat with the community?

Or what if we could chat directly on this site (in some sort of live and informal way)

JohnRando‭ wrote 6 months ago
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I'd go with XMPP instead of IRC.