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did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month 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] 1 points 1 month 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 1 month 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] 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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] 5 points 1 month 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] 3 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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