A Discord is not a substitute for a website. Or a support forum. Or an issue queue.
Or really pretty much anything besides maybe IRC or Matrix if you're not worried about the openness of the chat platform.
@geerlingguy I'd love to see a solution for setting up issue tracking and/or a forum engine that is easier to use than Discord
@cadey GitHub, issues + discussions, and search actually works, can be browsed without an account.
I like Redbooth. Dead simple, the free level is great - and when you want more project management depth, the prices are reasonable.
I am not shilling Redbooth, just a satisfied customer. It has saved me untold hours of futzing around.
@geerlingguy @cadey this. And if you care about selfhosting because you don't want it to disappear at the whim of corporations, use @forgejo
@hydrian @geerlingguy yes but as easy to use for "normal people" as it is to use Discord.
@cadey @hydrian @geerlingguy Discord isn’t easy to use if you have to track down a specific thing across a dozen servers with hundreds of channels. Especially when you get logged out during one of the nearly daily updates. Or when you ask a question that should be addressed in some sort of docs that no one ever bothered to write, and then people harass you for not digging through the server history hard enough looking for the answer. Plus, some people hate synchronous communication.