Discord
A voice, video, and text chat application originally built for gamers that has become the primary community hub for open-source software and Web3 projects.
What it is
While Slack dominates internal corporate communication, Discord dominates external community building. It provides highly customizable servers with voice channels and robust bot integrations. Almost all major open-source AI models, frontend frameworks, and developer tools host their official communities, support forums, and announcements on Discord.
When you would use it
You use Discord when you want to interact with the broader developer community, seek support for open-source tools, or interface with consumer-facing AI bots.
Common operations
- Asking for troubleshooting help directly from the maintainers of an open-source library.
- Accessing official AI image generators (like Midjourney) via Discord bot commands.