Ask HN: Who's using Discord for open source community?

5 points by cocktailpeanuts 9y ago ↗ HN

I've heard that Discord doesn't have invite limit (Slack only allows people to join after you invite them manually, and even this gets blocked after a while if the user doesn't respond to the invite, not to mention how it does have an undocumented upper limit on how many users you can have), I know some open source projects started using Discord as a Slack alternative, and was wondering what the general experience is like.

Can anyone share their experience using Discord as a Slack alternative for an open source community?

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qno 9y ago ↗

It's just plain better. The main target audience is still gaming communities, but the feature list is comparable/better then what Slack has to offer.

No restrictions, no limits, voicechat since day 1 etc. It doesn't offer screensharing though, and probably won't.

Linux support is still experimental, but I've had no problems with it.