Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
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Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#2There are quite a few forum options out there. Maintaining them is much more time intensive than operating a Slack or Discord group, though.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#3There are quite a few forum options out there. Maintaining them is much more time intensive than operating a Slack or Discord group, though.
Not if you count the time needed to man the channel for it to be useful, though.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#4There are quite a few forum options out there. Maintaining them is much more time intensive than operating a Slack or Discord group, though.
Slack or Discord live in the current moment. It is hard to get back into discussion which started a week ago. Channels do not provide much historical value.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#5There are quite a few forum options out there. Maintaining them is much more time intensive than operating a Slack or Discord group, though.
Slack or Discord live in the current moment. It is hard to get back into discussion which started a week ago. Channels do not provide much historical value.
It's virtually impossible to do so in Slack, unless someone ponies up the cash, which is not viable for very large slacks.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#6I wish I remembered what it was I was searching for, but I found a github issue where a repo admin directed folks to some chat website about a year ago; naturally, in the year 2021, the whole thing was completely defunct, and more recent threads pointed people to Discord.
I wonder what'll happen next year, if/when the Discord community fractures, or starts making certain channels private, or it's just abandoned and closed down.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#7The 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 base page, working something like a more powerful version of a pin in Slack or Discord.
Overall, though, I felt like the article was kind of bossy.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#8There are quite a few forum options out there. Maintaining them is much more time intensive than operating a Slack or Discord group, though.
Not if you count the time needed to man the channel for it to be useful, though.
I agree with the fact that Slack/Discord are terrible for keeping track of things long-term, but I will say that once you've set Discord/Slack up and running, operating it is typically pretty smooth - you've already likely got Slack and Discord running, and you can check it every so often.
Granted, things can completely explode, and moderation is still a requirement, but that's true of forums as well.
(Although due to their async nature, things boil over much more slowly, and it's typically easier to just put the entire forum or a user into a timeout.)
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#9The 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…
The poll is not exactly lined up with the point, though: it says that people want synchronous chat, while the article says synchronous chat is not beneficial to the community. Both can be true.
Re: Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community
#10The 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…
Yeah I could see in a few year Discord/Slack having "chat" channels, voice channels, and "forum" channels. Maybe even add in wikis, or dashboards.