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The reason Discord was chosen is disappointingly simple: It's just the chat software I used and knew best when I invited some people over from Stack Exchange to start this project. The Discord serv...
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#2: Post edited
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Mithical
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2024-04-22T08:15:16Z (8 months ago)
The reason discord was chosen is disappointingly simple: It's just the chat software I used and knew best when I invited some people over from Stack Exchange to start this project.- Then the whole thing kind of exploded and now there are 700-ish people on the server.
- Was it the best choice? Probably not.
Should we migrate to a different platform though? Ehh, probably also not. We've seen like three or four times during the Codidact project that migrating large-ish communities to new platforms is hard and has an enormous loss rate. For example, when we migrated the Community-specific discord servers to an all-Commmunities server, there were quite a lot of people who didn't follow to the new server and thus just disappeared.
- The reason Discord was chosen is disappointingly simple: It's just the chat software I used and knew best when I invited some people over from Stack Exchange to start this project. The Discord server for Codidact existed before the network of Q&A sites did.
- Then the whole thing kind of exploded and now there are 700-ish people on the server.
- Was it the best choice? Probably not.
- Should we migrate to a different platform though? Ehh, probably also not. We've seen like three or four times during the Codidact project that migrating large-ish communities to new platforms is hard and has an enormous loss rate. For example, when we migrated the Community-specific Discord servers to an all-Commmunities server, there were quite a lot of people who didn't follow to the new server and thus just disappeared.
#1: Initial revision
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luap42
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2024-04-22T07:31:33Z (8 months ago)
The reason discord was chosen is disappointingly simple: It's just the chat software I used and knew best when I invited some people over from Stack Exchange to start this project. Then the whole thing kind of exploded and now there are 700-ish people on the server. Was it the best choice? Probably not. Should we migrate to a different platform though? Ehh, probably also not. We've seen like three or four times during the Codidact project that migrating large-ish communities to new platforms is hard and has an enormous loss rate. For example, when we migrated the Community-specific discord servers to an all-Commmunities server, there were quite a lot of people who didn't follow to the new server and thus just disappeared.