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did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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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] 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are several projects on GitHub I use that are sometimes hard to find answers for questions. They have closed the Discussions on their GitHub page, and if you ask a question by opening an issue they close it and say “go join our discord server”.

It’s frustrating. You can’t search online for any issues. When you join the discord server, you can search and find lots of questions, but there are very few answers.

[–] Kissaki 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Have you considered creating a ticket called "Can't ask questions without joining discord"?

Do you think it would have more answers if it were on GitHub discussions?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

It would just get closed. They are strict about GitHub issues ONLY being for actual issues/bugs you find with that project. Anything else is either closed as not being an issue