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Thanks! Yeah, I think project/contributor discovery are closely related to this, but I haven't built that part yet since I want to get the basic community model right first. One re…

Hi HN, I built Earde because none of the community tools I was using felt like it was designed for open-source projects. Discord is good for realtime chat, Discourse and Zulip are …

Yes, absolutely, that's probably the biggest risk. Earde has to be useful to a project on its own first (through live chat, indexed forum, chat promotion). Our hypothesis is that w…

Hi HN, we’re Damiano and Nico and we are building Earde. Earde is a Discord alternative built specifically for open source projects. A maintainer connects a public GitHub repositor…

Thanks, I’ll look into those cases. I think the hard part is that Discord solves presence, Reddit solves discovery, and forums solve memory/structure, but none of them combines all…

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Thanks. Have you seen any communities that are actively struggling with this right now? I’m trying to understand whether this is just an abstract annoyance or whether there are act…

I’m part of a small technical community around type theory, and I keep running into a community-platform problem: Reddit and Discord are not really the right places to run communit…

This is what I was asking for, many thanks! By the way, my background is BSc in CS, so there surely are a good amount of things to learn.

I’ve always been passionate about it, so I would like to get a decent minimal knowledge on astrophysics, maybe to get into (amatorial) computational astrophysics.