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Nearly everything has moved to Slack and Discord communities in my experience :( Awful searching experience, gated, so many problems. But that's where the peop

Nearly everything has moved to Slack and Discord communities in my experience :( Awful searching experience, gated, so many problems. But that's where the people are. I only hope Matrix can improve their UX and encourage at least some people to migrate there instead

fortnum 6y ago
I don't even know what Matrix is :) So, essentially everything is a chat these days?
- phaemon 6y ago
  Matrix is like an updated IRC. There are Matrix servers and you connect to them with a Matrix client (I believe Element is the most popular).
thejosh 6y ago
Yeah, Pretty much every community has segmented off to their own Slack/Discord channels. :-( I really wish forums were still popular, I love the elixir forums for finding info but discourse is such a mess to use (when Googling something, I want to ctrl+f with my browser, thanks..).
- tmaly 6y ago
  forums are definitely better than Slack channels, but I think they still have their own issues. Information is spread out and not well organized. Search is better, but something that self organizes knowledge would be amazing.
bigyikes 6y ago
How do people find these things? I feel like I'm so out of the loop.
- richajak 6y ago
  For me, discord and slack are like private clubs. did not feel so welcomed. any idea how to find them?
  - dgellow 6y ago
    At least Discord has open invitations. Slack is really annoying for this, you have to know the correct person to invite you, or someone has to setup a server to automate the invitation process...
trinix912 6y ago
> Awful searching experience, gated, so many problems Especially this. It's impossible to find anything when searching on Discord. There are no threads, just channels which easily get thousands of messages per day. Maybe it'd help if those programming servers had logger bots which would index everything and upload it to a website where one could search it, but it still wouldn't solve everything. It feels sad because most of that content is likely going to be lost (it's not searchable anyway). IRC isn't much better in this aspect, but at least it is a more open protocol and one can easily write a program/script to archive the content. Discord on the other hand bans "self-bots" and unofficial clients. Another problem is being unable to continue a thread after some time, but Reddit has the same problem with their "archived" posts. I personally don't see much value in "archiving" posts except perhaps lowering mental overhead of the moderators. It's frustrating when I almost have the solution to my problem but end up having to open a completely new thread, wait for the right people to notice it and then hope it gets answered in time before it's "archived". Edit: typo

fortnum 6y ago

I don't even know what Matrix is :) So, essentially everything is a chat these days?

phaemon 6y ago
Matrix is like an updated IRC. There are Matrix servers and you connect to them with a Matrix client (I believe Element is the most popular).

thejosh 6y ago

Yeah, Pretty much every community has segmented off to their own Slack/Discord channels. :-( I really wish forums were still popular, I love the elixir forums for finding info but discourse is such a mess to use (when Googling something, I want to ctrl+f with my browser, thanks..).

tmaly 6y ago
forums are definitely better than Slack channels, but I think they still have their own issues. Information is spread out and not well organized. Search is better, but something that self organizes knowledge would be amazing.

bigyikes 6y ago

How do people find these things? I feel like I'm so out of the loop.

richajak 6y ago
For me, discord and slack are like private clubs. did not feel so welcomed. any idea how to find them?
- dgellow 6y ago
  At least Discord has open invitations. Slack is really annoying for this, you have to know the correct person to invite you, or someone has to setup a server to automate the invitation process...

trinix912 6y ago

> Awful searching experience, gated, so many problems Especially this. It's impossible to find anything when searching on Discord. There are no threads, just channels which easily get thousands of messages per day. Maybe it'd help if those programming servers had logger bots which would index everything and upload it to a website where one could search it, but it still wouldn't solve everything. It feels sad because most of that content is likely going to be lost (it's not searchable anyway). IRC isn't much better in this aspect, but at least it is a more open protocol and one can easily write a program/script to archive the content. Discord on the other hand bans "self-bots" and unofficial clients. Another problem is being unable to continue a thread after some time, but Reddit has the same problem with their "archived" posts. I personally don't see much value in "archiving" posts except perhaps lowering mental overhead of the moderators. It's frustrating when I almost have the solution to my problem but end up having to open a completely new thread, wait for the right people to notice it and then hope it gets answered in time before it's "archived". Edit: typo