douglasg14b

Except that apple was intentionally doing this to drive consumers towards buying more of their product

Lack of serviceability is a big one.

Walled gardens are another.

I have major issues with both. I bought the device, I should be able to repair it. It shouldn't intentionally not work with other ecosystems that use standard protocols either. I should be able to integrate my device with standards the rest of the world uses.

Pretty much you buy apple devices, you are essentially an expensive renter renting a really strong internal ecosystem that purposefully forces you into buying more of that ecosystem and not working outside of it.

For me?

I try to be civil and professional on the internet, and when I use this username I am speaking as myself. And this is largely the only username I use. And it can be tracked back to the real me.

Please no

100%. There are community tools made for this purpose. Make a discourse forum, if your project is on GitHub use GitHub issues and discussions. Discourse is fantastic, and is purpose made with all the features and gamification you could need for community knowledge management and q&a.

These are actively indexed and can hold a wealth of information that is invaluable to users of your open source project. And decreases the load on you.

Also, somehow, you can get worse than discord.... Slack. Slack servers that wipe anything more than 10k messages ago is absolute cancer for communities and community support...