Stop Using Discord
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Stop Using Discord
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#2The rest of the quote:
> Stop using Discord for anything else than just chatting. Stop dumping knowledge into a black hole. Use forums. Use the open web. Future nerds will thank you.
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#3Valid. I migrated a Rails codebase from Webpacker to Vite. All the help I needed was hidden in an obscure Discord server. Nothing on GH.
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#4Any recommendations for a free engineering community forum?
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#5Agreed. I also find it to be a terrible ux so I am bias
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#6Discord and Reddit are terrible dark holes of knowledge
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#7Any recommendations for a free engineering community forum?
phpBB
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#8Meanwhile... the mastodon page takes over 3 minutes to load.
I don't know of any pre-2010 forums that are still functional and searchable.
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#9Discord and Reddit are terrible dark holes of knowledge
At least reddit is indexed by search engines, right? I find that for a significant portion of my searches, appending "reddit" cuts through SEO/blogspam results and I get an answer without having to wade through too much nonsense.
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#10Any recommendations for a free engineering community forum?
https://www.discourse.org is great, best forum software I ever saw. You have probably used it already somewhere.
They have a paid hosting offer, but you can also self-host it for free. And it’s open source.