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I agree in principle - Discord can only scale that much - imagine having a discord channel instead of docs for Pandas . Obviously it would be best if there were
by handwarmers 3y ago
I agree in principle - Discord can only scale that much - imagine having a discord channel instead of docs for Pandas . Obviously it would be best if there were great docs for everything, a lot of easily searchable Q&As + sample projects, and a forum and some form of live chat for the community to discuss ideas.
But those take a ton of time to create, and a ton of skill to write well, and I feel like up and coming niche projects that need to build a community naturally would emphasize Discord over docs.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThe greatest communities in technology all have good documentation. There’s no reason to play fast and loose when you can just do the job right and document your tools.
- spongebobstoes 3y agoMaybe Discord can be a starting point, and documentation can be written later. One way to think about documentation is that it is useful to help scale up support. But if there is no scale, it is less important.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoThat doesn’t seem very unix philosophy to me
- handwarmers 3y agoThe Unix philosophy has nothing to do with documentation lol. It is actually the exact opposite of your know it all hypothetical "no reason to play fast and loose when you can just do the job right" fantasy : "Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don't hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them." If anything, it is a lot closer to move fast and break things.