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I haven't made my decision yet, feel free to try to change my mind.
To everyone saying Discord this Discord that: look, I'm in more Discord servers than IRC channels these days, I get Discord. I still think it's not the right option for this project, and enough people I care about would never use it.
One thing that *might* end up happening is dev chat on IRC, user chat on Discord, or something along those lines.
sounds like you should start another patron on top of the current one :p
I used gitter for a project once awhile back and found it fairly usable. I think gitlab open sourced it after they acquired it, but I'm not sure if the state of the IRC bridge is in order.
Gitter is just fancy matrix nowhttps://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/07/gitter-now-speaks-matrix …
Plus discord or slack = unsearchable context / history without access to the service directly. IRC or forums both can be available off server and searchable.
my primary reason not to use discord is that the tilde ~ looks weird in the default font
“ enough people I care about would never use it” That’s a management issue, not a technical issue. Find a way to get them to use it.
Alternative or modified clients are a TOS violation, and some objections are with the platform as a whole.
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Requirements: open protocol, data portability, cloud hosted (but option to self-host).
