[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] RFC: Moving toward Discord and Discourse for LLVM's discussions

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 at 17:23, Zachary Turner <zturner at roblox.com> wrote:
>> If we do select a provider (for Discourse, another or even Stack
>> Overflow), we need to make sure we'll always be able to download the
>> whole history and move to another service if the terms stop being
>> reasonable (or we get tired of it).
>
> I disagree.   This thread is about an IRC replacement, not about a forum replacement . It is inherently for discussions of a transient nature whose history need not be preserved.  Like "Hey @rengolin, what's the status of bug N that you were looking at?"  Even idle chit-chat and banter.  Exactly the kinds of discussions that preserving history is not useful for.

This thread is for both.

That paragraph was about the forum replacement.

I agree preserving history of chats aren't useful.