At a high level, I have a few expert-level questions and need some help troubleshooting some problems that while not unique, are absolutely nothing I can find any related results just by searching.
Adding to the frustration are the following:
* Google's search results are so completely useless these days it makes me angry. It seems that no matter what magic spell of keyword combinations I try, all of the top level results are either completely unrelated to what I search for or are otherwise just populated by SEO related spam that is mostly just nginx's commercial vomit.
* Serverfault.com looks dead. I asked something there in late April and to date its had 28 views and no comments or answers.
* Asking on general Stackoverflow gets your question closed because its not programming related. (I agree with that policy. Just saying its not and shouldn't be a valid avenue for help with this topic.)
* https://www.reddit.com/r/nginx/ is mostly a dead community.
* https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/ is really active, but generally not a good place to ask for nginx.
* I don't think there is a Discord community channel for nginx. I searched a bit the other day for this and couldn't find one.
* I've resorted to ChatGPT and it at least acts like it understands my questions, and it is somewhat helpful sometimes, but most of the time the answers it gives are not actually accurate enough to help. But a couple of times it has pointed me towards the right direction.
Although I've worked as a software engineer for years here in SF, only a couple of my friends are even in the field and none of them have experience that would help.
I've recognized that I'm probably at least shoulder deep into this particular rabbit hole and its time to ask for some help to pull my head out and show me other resources I'm not aware of.
Appreciate everyone's help.