There was a lot of engagement in the communities I participate up until a couple of years ago. People were interested and actively discussing a lot of topics. There were a lot of newbies asking questions and people proposing different ways for tasks.

Is it just me or did it reduce a lot? LLMs? Company forums? Other forums I did not move to (e.g. discord)? Reduced interest? Or is it just subjective?

  • @Pissmidget
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    9 hours ago

    The quickest way to have me lose all interest in any new, potentially neat, tech is having to visit their discord for anything from documentation to discussion.

    • Flamekebab
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      688 hours ago

      Join our Discord!

      No, don’t trouble yourselves, I’ll just use something else.

    • Lemminary
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      36 hours ago

      Idk, I used to get my questions about Mirror for Unity answered on Discord either directly or by doing a search and never had a problem with it. I’d never say never.

      (Tbf, they do use GitHub and such but the Discord is quite active as well.)

      • @PoopingCough
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        45 hours ago

        How does searching discord work? I was under the impression that entire chat logs weren’t permanent and that older exchanges would be routinely deleted.

        • DreamButt
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          33 hours ago

          I’ve searched chat logs that are ancient as all hell. Not sure what lead you to think they purge history. Maybe it’s only on the largest servers?

        • Lemminary
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          24 hours ago

          I don’t think Discord deletes chat logs. I have no idea how it works but I think restricting chat history based on tiers was more of a Slack thing. But maybe I’m wrong and they have permanent boosters who unlock all those perks?

          • Krzd
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            12 hours ago

            Discord doesn’t delete chat logs AFAIK, however one of the permissions prevents you from reading things from before you joined a server/channel