I have created an unofficial Matrix chat for Caddy users at #caddy:matrix.org. If the developers ever want to make it official, please let me know, and I’ll happily hand over the channel.
There’s already an unofficial discord we keep an eye on, I don’t think we need to fragment the community any more than it already is. We prefer giving support via the forums, easier to manage with threads and long-form posts.
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Thanks; yeah, we won’t be adding more official venues for now so that we can focus the energy of our helpers and reduce stress+fragmentation. But obviously the community is welcome to create their own unofficial chats/spaces/forums/whatever anywhere they want! 
Thanks for sharing!
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If the two channels set up the Discord bridge there is no fragmentation 
Free and set up in 15min t2bot.io - Discord Bridge
Hosted and offered by one of the Matrix Foundation folks.
I do have to say I am a big lover of Discourse and forums – so I get it wanting to have the community here with all the benefits this provides
Discord is a closed-source platform that can disappear at any moment and continue to be turned to garbage. I don’t ever want to use it.
I really hope the Caddy team also embrace more open platforms in the future (move away from GitHub and X to GitLab/Codeberg and Mastodon).
To be clear, I said unofficial, re the Discord. The only official platform we maintain for discussion is here.
We have no plans to move away from GitHub. That would harm the community more than help it. Go code is directly tied to the git repo location, so moving to another platform would be a massive breaking change and completely break the entire plugin ecosystem.
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Vendor lock in? That is nasty.
If we absolutely had to switch platforms, we would do it. But there’s truly no good reason to do so. GitHub is still perfectly trustworthy as a platform.
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Not any more than we are “locked in” to our forums: we can move the forums, but moving the entire community is disruptive. “Lock-in” is just as true of any self-hosted solution (which these forums are) as a cloud-hosted platform when a community is involved.
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I disagree that GitHub is trustworthy, but trust is an individual opinion.
On the Discord note, I would be happy to bridge to there if the owners of that community agree.