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Abby Cabunoc Mayes
@abbycabs.dev

Remember my Gen Z open source talk at #OSSummit? We published it on the @github blog because y'all haven't stopped talking about it since June 💭 Maintainers under 26 dropped from 25% to 10% since 2021. Meanwhile Gen Z is learning to code on YouTube and running Discord communities... 🧵

Abby Cabunoc Mayes
@abbycabs.dev

...but we're wondering why they don't stick around in our projects? Since June, so many of you started experimenting. Discord servers. Video docs. Purpose-first READMEs. This community continues to amaze me ✨

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Wes
@notwes.bsky.social

Good read, thanks! I completely agree with the goals, but I admit that I think the Discord advice has been a struggle for me. The projects I have seen use them seem to have really spamy activity. Either all questions and no answers, or actual spam posts.

Wes
@notwes.bsky.social

The slack communities, despite slack being worse for community building IMO, have much higher "signal-to-noise" ratio. Is this something you have seen? If not, can you point me to some "good" examples? Specifically ones run by unpaid volunteers?

Wes
@notwes.bsky.social

I think one thing that makes discord feel that way to me is the lack of threading. Slack means you can have side convos in a relatively sane way. Especially if you build a norm about using threads like that. Discord UX specifically pushes single thread per channel even if folks use replies AFAICT.