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Poll for chat users and non-chat users
There is a link in the right hand panel (or bottom of the page on mobile) to "join us in chat".
Chat is an entirely optional extra, but I'm curious about one thing, so this question is intended as a simple poll to gather information by voting on answers.
Some people are users of Codidact, but not of chat, while others are users of both. Since Codidact is open source and non-profit, while chat is currently not (being provided by Discord), I can imagine 3 groups:
- People who use chat.
- People who do not use chat because they have no interest in chat.
- People who would be interested in chat but avoid Discord.
Maybe also a 4th group:
- People who do not use chat because they were not aware of it.
If you are in one of those groups, please upvote the corresponding answer, or add it if it does not yet exist. I'm hoping that answers here will be a single line for voting on, to get an idea of numbers. If you want to discuss details of whether we should have chat or who should provide it, feel free to raise a separate Meta question for that discussion (rather than an answer here).
I use chat. All things being equal, I would prefer it not to be run by Discord. I'm not going to leave because of tha …
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I think this is really a 5th answer: I use chat minimally, but only the moderators' lounge. A chatroom is probably the o …
2mo ago
I don't use the chat associated with Codidact for three reasons: It's a waste of time. If there is something to talk …
2mo ago
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I don't use the chat associated with Codidact for three reasons:
- It's a waste of time. If there is something to talk about that would be content in one of the Q&A sites, then that's where it should be. If it's related but not thought out well enough to be a proper Q&A question, then it's not ready yet to ask a bunch of volunteers to spend time on it. If it's not even related to a Q&A topic, then it's just part of a kaffeeklatsch. No thanks. I've got better things to get on with.
- It's not useful to the chat comment author. Information you write isn't really added to the store of knowledge we are trying to build. Most likely, only the single user or group you are responding to will ever see what you write. Writing in chat has very low bang for buck ratio.
- I don't want to be associated with something called "Discord". In the early days of Codidact, there would often be references to the "Discord server". I didn't know what it was, but the name was very off-putting. There is enough discord in the world already. I don't want to be part of more. It was also off-putting that people would just say "Discord server", and expect everyone else to know what they were talking about. It felt like the private domain of an "in" clique. I eventually realized Discord was some kind of chat server, but the name and the experience still makes me not want to have any part in it.
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I think this is really a 5th answer: I use chat minimally, but only the moderators' lounge. A chatroom is probably the only sensible mechanism to ask for advice on how to handle specific situations where I'm unsure on the best approach, but otherwise I have no interest in chat.
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