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As discussed in a recent comment I made [0], I think the problem is that a good modern forum software simply does not exist yet. imo discourse doesn't cut it, feels almost as ephemeral as in slack/discord. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29016033
There are quite a few forum options out there. Maintaining them is much more time intensive than operating a Slack or Discord group, though.
Just use GitHub Issues and Discussions, please - it's so much simpler for everyone.
The poll results show the real sentiment, that close to 30% of people actually like synchronous chat. That is a significant chunk. Perhaps there's an unmet market need for a product that both excels at synchronous and asynchronous communication. I could see potential for a feature in a chat program where a message or series of messages could be selected and enshrined in a search engine-indexed synchronous knowledge b…
Who are these people and how do they have time follow synchronous chat on deep technical products all day?
I think "less capable moderation tools" is really underselling how purposefully useless and nonexistent Slack's moderation tools are for open communities. I cannot overstate how terrible Slack is in this regard. To be clear, I really and truly don't fault them for this: Slack's always been clear that their focus is on business communication, which is a totally different animal when it comes to moderation needs. Disco…
The discord/slack as a means of communicating technical questions is a great example how an entire generation refused to accept a solid solution because it didn't fit their impediment desire. (Need is wavy here because the responsiveness isn't the original need.. it's the answering of the question that's a need.. being instanteous is just a convenience ) What am I saying: We've had technical mediums to discuss techni…
I mean, a lot of developers used IRC as far back as I can remember? Forums are newer than IRC chat, though arguably Forums are based on USENET, BBS, or email-lists. ------- IRC / Discord / Slack / Skype are real-time communication / instant messenger style communications. Email / Forums / USENET / Reddit / Digg / Slashdot / Hacker News are async and slow.
This recurring discussion is very "This is the year for Linux on the desktop" Nobody wants to register on some random weird site, and figure that sites navigation, let alone their privacy/data policies. Discord/Reddit/Slack/etc... are easy to use. People are comfortable using them. They provide a more uniform experience across different servers/subreddits/etc...
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Yeah discourse feels like such a regression when compared to the phpbb and vBulletin of yore
In what way? As a lurking user I think it's miles better.
answers to questions in slack will never be indexed (let alone archived) by search engines
I had a piece of software that used Discord for support. They required that users be verified, which requires you to give you phone number to Discord. I gave them my Google Voice number, which is the only number I have, and they rejected it because they don't support VOIP numbers. I asked them if there was any other way to verify my identity.
They told me, "Just use a friend's phone to verify. As long as they don't try to verify on Discord in six months it should be fine, we won't check again".
Their official answer to identity verification was to impersonate someone else!