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[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

This is often done by people while the project is unstable. No need to write documentation that gets outdated every few weeks, when you can help people live in discord.

[-] OddFed@feddit.de 53 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There is a gazillion options without having to use a login walled proprietary solution.

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It shouldn't be done at all. If you're updating discord, you're writing something. That something should be, at the bare minimum, in a README file.

If you can't be bothered with Markdown, just do text.

I've never encountered this in the wild so I can't say for certain why a FOSS project would choose to do this.

Maybe they are trying to get more people on their server?

[-] wolo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Discord uses a subset of Markdown for message formatting, so they'll be writing it regardless

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

And when the project is stable, they don't care to document it, either.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

The first doc you write is the FAQ and let it handle the common requests -- no need to 'live' in discord. Locating that where more people can see it is normally obvious.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a project I don't want to use until it finishes baking.

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