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
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?
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
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.
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
… should be avoided. Try gitlab?
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
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.
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.
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!
I am talking about general projects and nothing specific to coding. Unless I misunderstood their post.