We're now open source!

[monarchwadia]

DevCollective.io is the next evolution of Mintbean -- and we're now open source!

We've been hosting the community on Discord for a while, and I've made so many real friends. I love our community a lot, and I'm so grateful to have gotten to know all of you in the past year. It's actually very strange and funny to me personally because, in a big way, I feel like I'm reliving my teenage years. All of which were misspent on chatrooms like Mintbean. Except back then they were all on IRC, ICQ and MSN instead of Discord. The biggest difference is that this time, I'm the one hosting the chatroom, and this time I'm way more productive and useful to society than I was back then.

As fun as it may be, Discord leaves a lot to be desired. For one, stuff you say in Discord stays in Discord -- and then gets forgotten. I find myself getting into the same conversations over and over again because people don't have a way to search up answers to very common questions. It's also an intimidating and difficult platform for many who might not be gamers or hardcore nerds like some of us are, and so I found it to be unfortunately non-inclusive (although I sense they're trying to fix that issue).

Discord also isn't really a platform for software developers. It's more of a general chat tool. I don't enjoy the stress of rushing to type my thoughts out before somebody else jumps in. I don't enjoy having no time to respond to messages. Either I respond to messages now or risk the most interesting threads getting buried in the unavoidable avalanche of newer messages, and how it demands that you answer messages now or don't answer them at all.

So we're building DevCollective.io.

I'm looking forward to having a long discussion about it here -- and also learning from Github Discussions' own inevitable issues and shortcomings -- and collectively building a platform that fills our needs as developers.