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FLOSS communities right now
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4 pane comic of dolan on the left and spooderman on the right
pane 1 (dolan): cum join opensurce cummunity!
pane 2 (spooderman): shure! how joyn?
pane 3 (dolan): Here discord! (with discord logo)
pane 4 (spooderman with tears in eyes): y u do dis?
every time I run into an issue with Proton-GE it makes me angry again: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom?tab=readme-ov-file#2-if-you-have-an-issue-that-happens-with-my-proton-ge-build-provided-from-this-repository-that-does--not--happen-on-valves-proton-please-do-not-open-a-bug-report-on-valves-bug-tracker-instead-contact-me-on-discord-about-the-issue
Unpopular opinion:
For a open source project like the above which has so many constant moving parts, a discord is probably a good idea to ensure the author of the issue can provide more details about their problem and respond to follow up immediately.
Because I can absolutely see a breaking change involving something outside of the open-source project itself.
I say that as a person who hates discord. But I'm also part of the older generation so waiting 3-9 months for a reply is kinda normal. And the projects I support, it's pretty common to make a merge request that finally gets approved a two years later.
if you actually visit that Discord (like I reluctantly do, from time to time), you'll find that all issues are being discussed in a handful of general channels with multiple people discussing multiple issues at the same time in one never-eding stream of messages. if you miraculously find a proper keyword that brings up someone else having the same issue as you do, the only way to find if someone else replied to it is by scrolling through all that noise.
Discord has like a Q/A section now doesn't it? That should definitely be utilized more than the chat portion for projects like this.
You mentioned "keyword", are you aware of the search feature in discord?
yes, I'm aware of how absolutely useless it is.