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I know how to run pi, but that doesn't mean it makes sense for everyone else or even most of the people. Say you have some open source project and there is a ne
by nextlevelwizard 5y ago
I know how to run pi, but that doesn't mean it makes sense for everyone else or even most of the people. Say you have some open source project and there is a need to have some form of communication. You can either jump through the hoops to host your own forum that you need to host and monitor. Now you are spending time you could be using to work on your project on sysadmin stuff. So either you pay for it, which feels bad when there is free alternatives available which will do the job just as well with only lacking some discoverability in form of text search, but you can redemy that by making a sticky comment where you have FAQ or whatever you need.
Evne with digital ocean you still need to worry your server and keep it up to date which again takes time out of your actual project.
I don't see what problems you people see with Discord. Yeah you can't take all of the conversation data with you, but is that really what you would even want? I don't know what kind of projects you are running where forum is so much superior to discord.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoa project other people use? they can google answers or use forum search… I’m not at their beck and call to answer questions in chat different people will like different things, but chat is transient an hour a month on server maintenance isn’t going to make or break anyone’s project, but if you don’t like tinkering with things there’s nothing wrong with that
- nextlevelwizard 5y ago>a project other people use? they can google answers or use forum search can you give example?
- micromacrofoot 5y agonot mine, but forums I frequent: https://users.rust-lang.org/ https://users.rust-lang.org/ https://discuss.emberjs.com/ https://discuss.emberjs.com/ https://github.community/ https://github.community/
- nextlevelwizard 5y agobut what makes the format better other than you dont like discord?
- micromacrofoot 5y agosearch, permanence
- nextlevelwizard 5y agoAgain please give examples. Everyone says that searching is better which obviously it is, but what the hell are you all searching from these forums?