Great idea, and it's definitely an area I am becoming more interested in as a hobbyist.
Not to be that guy, but I always think it's a shame to see an open source community centre itself around a Discord server.
Not to be that guy, but I always think it's a shame to see an open source community centre itself around a Discord server.
In your specific case, you may have to self-host or pay because I don't believe your project would qualify under their open source hosting offering but it wouldn't hurt to ask
Ultimately it's your decision, and I guess Discord is probably easier to manage. Just consider that with Discord the discussions and knowledge that build up on the server don't really belong to you.