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

  • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca
    261·
    10 months ago

    I’m an aged university student, and I spend most of the first day of any group project trying to convince people why NOT to use Discord or Instagram for all our comms.

    It’s infuriating, but sometimes I feel like I’m yelling at a cloud.

    • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
      131·
      10 months ago

      What’s the issue with using Discord for communication for a group project? I understand for coding, and why not to use Instagram, but if it is just a group project why is Discord bad?

      • foxglove@feddit.de
        9·
        10 months ago

        Cool for communication, not cool when it is the only reference for decisions/planning/references/general doc

        But for an uni project… sometimes it’s also good.to stay pragmatic and stick to something everyone feels comfortable with

        • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          That’s what I would have thought. What exactly is a typical alternative approach, commercially? Open source projects might maintain a wiki or traditional website, and documentation files within the source itself.

          • foxglove@feddit.de
            1·
            10 months ago

            For open source, GitHub has a crap load of stuff that you get for free, their features beyond code, issues & PRs is pretty cool. IIRC for when you get past free tiers, they have a program for open source where you can still be eligible for more of their otherwise paid offering

            As for students, if it’s code, GitHub! Other than that, Trello maybe?

            I think Microsoft still also hands out license for various tools or SaaS that one could use for that. Atlassian likely too for their jira/confluence. Or just some docs in a shared Google drive

        • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I usually use it in conjunction with a Google Doc or something else. I guess i wouldn’t be surprised people completely use it for everything which I agree is dumb

      • anti-idpol action@programming.devOP
        5·
        10 months ago

        at work you’ll probably use something like jira, github projects or taiga so it’s good to learn using and relying on a single source of truth designed specifically to see who’s working on what and keeping the specs in one place. Also this one is a disputable, but I think that compared to e-mails, IM apps feel slightly more hostile towards the right to disconnect (read receipts and activity status for example). Also in professional env if a company cares about it’s trade secrets it will not rely on 3rd party solutions for all of it’s communications.

        • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          Also in professional env if a company cares about it’s trade secrets it will not rely on 3rd party solutions for all of it’s communications.

          This one is big, and shouldn’t just be professional environments. People rely on open spy devices in both environments because they’re dumb.

          Element would be a great alternative. Signal would also be decent.

          • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            10 months ago

            Signal is great but Element doesn’t yet operate at the speed of light like a modern communication app. I’m sure that’ll change eventually!