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Really excited to see Discord rejected. Watching Discord take over open source and free culture communities has been disheartening to say the least.

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Conversly, I'm surpised that Slack made the list for similar reasons. I would've thought the would definitely want an open-source solution.

Discord changed the communications of an entire generation, removed ideal low priority messaging and replaced it with a vulnerable and bloated service that now offers to sell you games and track your every move. Everything on Discord is unencrypted by design.

I think people are moving to discord as a stop-gap because they place user experience above everything else.

There's a lot of alternatives, but until they provide a good user experience, I don't see a point in purposefully making peoples' lives suck.

I'm confident that alternative's to discord will get better with time, but they're really not there yet.

I've never heard of this but I'm not particularly in the field... Can you expand?

Rust is moving from irc to discord as a result of mozilla sunsetting their irc server. I know one datapoint is not a trend, but it's a high profile datapoint.

Rust has already moved to discord, but it's subject to evaluation and might as well change.

I doubt it'll change. The Rust team simply don't care about privacy.

They've been knowingly and willingly violating the GDPR since it came in to force despite constant reminders of that fact.

> They've been knowingly and willingly violating the GDPR

That's quite the inflamatory statement to throw out there without at least providing a source or two.

I'm guessing they are talking about this issue which has been open for a disturbingly long time: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/955

It seems to be grinding through to a conclusion. Google analytics has already been removed (2018).

Activity only started after the ICO made contact with them as a result of my complaint.

(I also have issues with how slow the ICO are at investigating, but that's a different story)

This is not accurate. I can agree that the process has been slow and frustrating, but that’s for us as well. We would have much preferred to have this all sorted a long time ago.

I won’t be able to say more than that, but I can’t stand by suggesting that we don’t care about this issue. I’ve been personally advocating for these things longer than that issue has been open.

If you've been personally advocating against the inertia of your team for a long time, I think that lends weight to the idea that "we" (the team) don't care about the issue so much. You do, but not the team you're part of.

That could be the case but the inertia doesn’t come from the team.

IPs and the account data you give them. And the complaint is not the collection, just that there's no listing that lets you know they collect IPs.

Seems extremely minor. I'm very far from disturbed.

Minor sure, but it's still illegal.

fwiw, the Embedded Rust Working Group moved to matrix: https://rust-embedded.github.io/blog/newsletter-18/

You must really dislike GitHub then.

I can't speak for the OP of this thread, but I agree with them and yes, I really dislike GitHub, too.

I can more or less easily get my data out of github (I can host a repo elsewhere, write a script to scrape the issues, etc.) I don't like using the non-git parts of it for much (ie why write a wiki when you can just make a repo full of markdown files?) Discord is a whole other level of walled garden. It's a black hole of information, and that information isn't owned by you. Discoverability is nonexistent.

> why write a wiki when you can just make a repo full of markdown files?

fyi: github wikis are just a repo full of markdown files. you can clone down your wiki, make changes, write commits, etc.

Except it is using Gollum, which isn't all that great. I think the only positive is tab integration. I prefer the GitHub or GitLab Pages approach.

Backup scripts also exist for Discord. You can also export your data. It really isn't much different than GitHub in that aspect.

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