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Seeking feedback on experience with open source chat software

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Currently Codidact uses Discord for chat, which is linked from the right hand panel:

Right hand panel showing a link to "join us in chat"

Codidact runs on open source software, whereas Discord is closed source. The Codidact Foundation is a non-profit organisation, whereas Discord is a for-profit company which advertises paid-for products to its users (including users of the Codidact Discord server).

There are several discussions on Meta related to this:

The following posts about linking to Discord also mention the future possibility of a built-in chat:

It seems that while there is some community desire for an alternative to Discord, there is unlikely to be available development time to build Codidact-specific chat software for some time. I'm interested to hear how the community would feel about using existing open source chat software as a replacement for Discord.

Do any of you have experience of using any open source chat software? What are their good and bad points? Which ones would you be happy to see as Codidact's chat long term?

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To throw in some alternatives which I found more pleasant to use than zulip: - matrix: has the ad... (4 comments)
Best avoid yet another intermediary platform (2 comments)
Best avoid yet another intermediary platform

If Codidact is still set on building chat software (I’d like to cowork on it once I feel productive enough to pick up programming again), I think we should avoid some intermediary software. We currently have a bunch of users on the Discord server(s), but not that many are active. As has been said before, I’m worried we’d lose passive users that would otherwise become active again due to their current tie with the platform and chat.

trichoplax‭ wrote 6 months ago

I understand the desire to avoid making two switches if we can instead just wait and make one switch later. That's part of why I'm seeking feedback - if there's a solution out there that would work permanently rather than Codidact building its own, then we'd only need to switch once. If the existing solutions would only be another temporary fix, then I agree I'd rather stick with what we have until the permanent fix is available.