Re: [WICG/webcomponents] Place to chat about Web Components standardization (Issue #956)

I'm one of the people who went looking for a home for WCCG discussions and set up the WCCG Discord, and it was a honestly very frustrating experience. Every option had serious issues[^1].

At the time, there was a flood of web and open source projects moving to Discord. One of our goals was to be convenient to the largest number of community members, and because so many of them already used Discord for dev projects, it was very valuable to be a click away from joining and an icon in their server list.

But I think there are two things to consider with this specific issue:
1. The implementors and standards participants and not _exactly_ the same audience and the WCCG audience. WCCG can be on Discord while the W3C group uses Matrix.
2. I've seen some hints of projects moving some things off of Discord due to threading and public search indexing. GitHub Discussions is better on those axes, but I've personally notice the volume of discussions to be lower, and the time to reply be longer, there for whatever reasons. Some people really love the immediacy of chat and the low barrier of not having to create a topic for every new thought.

[^1]: A lot of the UX problems with Matrix had to do with rooms, thread, and discovery. Those could have been improved on in the last couple of years, so it'd be great to look at it again.

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