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I cannot possibly think of something I would want to use less. A Snapchat-developed UI framework where communication is done via Discord sounds like something carefully designed to repulse me.




I wholeheartedly agree for the same reasons, and I even use discord a lot (for personal/social reasons, not for support/business reasons).

Tons of software projects have moved their communities to discord. Not saying it's a great thing, but you're self selecting out of the future.

Just because everyone is doing it doesn't mean it's a good idea, or that we should just shut up and accept it. That's the non-monied part of how enshittification proliferates: "Well everyone else is doing it!" "It's the future, get with the times and deal with it"

If the future is unable to think critically, I'll stay in the past.

What would you use instead?

Self-hosted forums, github's built-in forums, IRC; Practically anything but Discord.



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