EDIT: I don’t like the term ‘soy boy’, just picked ‘soydev’ for a lack of a better word, intending to use it semi-ironically.
recently I saw a project move PR discussions to discord, like what’s the point of using a git forge at this point, you can as well just use git send-email
Also game Devs that have discord for their community and then there are channels for bug reports and channels for suggestions and feedback.
Nothing will get tracked, nothing will be retrievable, you might as well yell into the void.
I think it’s reasonable if the users are given the ability to fill in bug reports via discord and then that gets forwarded to a git forge via some bot so that they don’t have to deal with setting up an account on said forge. But if discord is the primary tool for such tasks then it’s kinda messy, like trying to idk, replace pliers with scissors, or trying to use a ruler to cut things. Technically you can and it might work, but we created specialized tools for various tasks for a reason, why try to make the tools we use like jacks of all trades and masters of none?
Depends. I’ve seen games where they have official staff that act as front line on discord and log actual issues into their bug tracker.
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But then people will see how many bugs your code actually has, and how you actually can’t be bothered fixing any of them!
They did have a link to it, it’s just that most players preferred interacting via discord
That sounds like a nightmare. I would only discord for conversational communication at most. How does that even work?
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Lumia stream uses discord but the “post” type of channel, it works pretty well, searches for similar before adding a new entry, each has its own thread. Easy to peruse
I’d prefer GitHub and proper error reports but from a reporter side it’s convenient at least
Not quite. There was an interesting talk by the devs of slay the spire. If i remember vorrectly they just scraped discord and then made an evaluation of this data and from there generated useful feedback for development.
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Indeed. That it most likely is!
The only time I’ve seen this done right is when there was interaction between discord and github. It was fantastic and I never looked into how it was setup.