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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?

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[–] [email protected] 179 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Join our Discord!

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Lol I can't remember if it was sync or Lemmy that tried to get me on their discord server recently. I go to join, and it asked for some kind of ID verification. Like dude, I didn't have to do this for your actual app. As you might guess, I did not join the server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I keep joining discord rooms because I just want to search for something specific real quick... I don't want to dig up my real account or join, I just want to take a peek inside and dig up the answer to my question

Almost every time I sign up with a username and get just enough time to start looking for what I need before it decides to kick me out for "suspicious activity"

At this point I just search the project name when it happens... I'm usually there to evaluate a project, and if that's not enough I just drop it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

It actually was half way decent til recently, then they just broke the search function for idk reasons. Discord doesn't purge chat to my knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They do if the chat gets banned. Which eventually some dingas will do something that will get a community banned. Quite a bit of emulation docs got removed a couple of times this year because people cant take the hint not to talk about how they got their roms and emulators.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

there's a thing you can add to a server to mirror everything to a proper indexable website: https://www.answeroverflow.com/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days 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