Choosing a developer chat platform

[adrian]

@jtpavlock

Hopefully a dev chat room can start to gain some traction and we can get a couple of willing developers

Speaking of… I was looking into gitter some more as I hadn’t used it before, and it seems like it relies on a web-based platform for mobile apps i.e. deprecating their current android/ios apps. May be something to consider if you aren’t hard set on gitter already. I personally like discord, it’s more widespread and has more features, but I can see its propensity towards gaming being offputting… someone broke down a nice set of pros/cons here

edit: discord also supports bots for github which could be useful

If you want, I could setup/handle the admin stuff of the discord but obviously have you as a full permissions owner.

That’s too bad about Gitter and their mobile apps! I thought their iOS app was pretty good.

I have never used Discord before, although I use a billion Slack workspaces every day for work stuff and its GitHub integration is awesome. I’m down to give either a try for beets. It seems like one major advantage mentioned in the thread is that Discourse is easier to set up for open signups—but that was in 2018. Looks like a few options have cropped up now, although I have not tried any of them.

Does anyone on this thread happen to have strong opinions about chat apps? It does seem like Gitter may not be the thing, but I’m happy to try anything.