Comment by freeqaz | Hacker News Reader

Comment by freeqaz | Hacker News Reader

Teams for Linux, when I inspect it with htop, is actually running a process called "Skype" in the background.

I think that explains some of the crappiness of the UX! (It has required some serious hacking to make it even functional for me.)

Since then my team has swapped to using Discord for what we're doing. It sounds a bit weird to use a Gamer tool at work but it's actually been pretty great since we run an Open Source AI + Security community[0]. Having everybody in one place is great!

For anybody else that's building dev tools or that's doing Open Source work, I'd really recommend Discord. The video quality is great for screen sharing (biggest problem with Google Meet) and the client is significantly better than Zoom (which chugs constantly on Linux). Plus it's cheap! (~$25/month for the whole dev team)

0: https://discord.gg/kheMFne2mW

I find it strange to associate open source and discord. I tend to dismiss any open source project that uses it.

I'm excited for Linen[0] to potentially replace Discord for our use case because unfortunately it doesn't feel like there is another tool that we could use besides Discord or Slack. (We were on Slack for a long time but we just couldn't get people to use it, and we've had a lot more success building a community since swapping to Discord.)

What other tools do you recommend for Open Source communities to use?

0: https://www.linen.dev/ (They are going to be adding a 2-way sync soon that lets you post messages from the web into Slack, Discord, and even GitHub Discussions, so you can basically pick any platform and it doesn't matter. Kind of like the old IRC days!)

Sounded interesting but I'm immediately turned off by the wall of channels in their screenshot. They can't even show 3 letters worth of alphabetic searching in a full screen of text. I think discord has it's faults but they're working to reduce the wild growth of new channels and seem to cope with large communities in a somewhat decent manner.

On my machine teams regularly eats up several gigabytes of ram, even when not interacting with it at all.

I generally don't care about applications using a lot of ram, but this is just too much for a program which I mostly use for text messaging.

I use it in the web browser

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