Discussion forums are not a viable substitute for encoding solved problems into documentation. This will continue to be a new discovery each time a service shut

Discussion forums are not a viable substitute for encoding solved problems into documentation. This will continue to be a new discovery each time a service shuts down. If a solution is not incorporated your effort’s formal documentation, then that solution will eventually be lost. Trying to shift the burden of documenting solutions from the project to the forum archives, whether hosted or outsourced, will eventually fail.