Nathaniel J. Smith

@pquentin also pointed out this link to the rust folks talking about trying discord: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/exploring-new-communication-channels/7859/32 [Edit: Some more projects "We're moving to discord" announcements: [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2017/07/03/home-assistant-is-moving-to-discord/), [Vue.js](https://vuejsfeed.com/blog/gitter-chat-for-vue-js-is-moving-to-discord)] @fuyukai does discord...

@Fuyukai Is it possible to have a single URL which (a) if you're already a member of the chat, puts you into the chat, (b) if not, invites you to...

@Fuyukai the reason I asked is that I tried clicking on an invite link for a discord I'm already a member of, and it gave me the "So-and-so invited you...

Probably worth writing down the issues we've had with gitter here. The good parts: the onboarding is super-simple – you can view chat, and follow links to archives, totally anonymously;...

Working on closing up tabs, so here are some more notes I accumulated a while ago: Rust trying out discord, and some discussion: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/exploring-new-communication-channels/7859/147 More discussion in the Rust context....

@tgoodlet oh interesting. Well, I guess we'll see whether this is the kind of acquisition where it means they get more resources to fill in the missing pieces, or the...

Heh, in case we do want to take advantage of Discourse's free hosting for OSS projects: we recently passed the old qualification requirement (2000 stars), *and* they dropped that requirement...

Maybe it's time to get a Discourse forum? It's a forum, so complementary to the chat channel, and it seems like we might be getting to the point where it'd...

@Ninpo thanks for the offer! I think we're going to try hard to stick to managed hosting though – I've seen too many projects waste too much time on sysadminning...

OK, I filled out the request-a-free-forum form at https://blog.discourse.org/2016/03/free-discourse-forum-hosting-for-community-friendly-github-projects/, so we'll see what happens next :-)