> Engagement on Twitter
> Official Discord chat room
Cherry picked from a list with 4 others elements that I agree with, but the first two are terrible. Twitter is getting more and more closed (you can't see some stuff without being logged in now) and for Discord you have to create an account to see the content. Both are not free software. Reading stuff around free software shouldn't require an account on a proprietary platform.
> Official Discord chat room
No. Not at all. Many very popular OSS projects don't use Twitter or Discord. Any time you say "all OSS projects use technology X", be it GitHub or Twitter or whatever, the only thing you can be sure of is that the statement is wrong. Some projects may, sure, but that's different.
Probably the only "technology" you can say they generally use is a web page.
It is reasonable to say "they have 1 or more ways to interact, and that's clearly identified on their web page". But assuming that everyone uses the same communication mechanism is demonstrably false.
> Lack of any one of these points isn’t the end of the world, but at the present moment, Jekyll lacks ALL of them. That’s a real problem.
I think the point is that most projects will engage with the public in at least some of these ways.
But that has not been my experience with Matrix.
The best part about these, is that though we step off topic sometimes, generally everyone is really helpful and focused on the general subject matter. It's not endless gossip, in jokes and memes, these people actively find new faces, and then find places for them to fit in the community and things to take ownership of.
These smaller networks are a rare type of community, and I love it.
Humour aside, you would do it if you wanted to encourage movement of the closed silos. It's not likely that your irl friends and family will make the jump anytime soon, but getting dev communities to make the switch is a much more tractable problem.
The biggest projects are typically on IRC, mailing lists, and online forums. Linux, ffmpeg, practically every Linux or BSD distro, Git, nginx, postgresql, systemd, neovim, Freedesktop, etc.
Practically none of the software I use on a daily basis has a significant Discord presence.
>neovim
Neovim is on twitter, and doesn't have a mailing list. They also offer matrix and IRC (presumably bridged). See https://neovim.io/community/
Github is not open. All the things listed there are costly, in one way or another. There's nothing free about anything that makes up open source today. Open source became corporate some time in the late 00s. And while I don't agree with the author (including the fact that he calls the new product Ruby-powered, not Impaired by Ruby), I do agree with that strange assessment that open source communities work that way.