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did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev

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There was a lot of engagement in the communities I participate up until a couple of years ago. People were interested and actively discussing a lot of topics. There were a lot of newbies asking questions and people proposing different ways for tasks.

Is it just me or did it reduce a lot? LLMs? Company forums? Other forums I did not move to (e.g. discord)? Reduced interest? Or is it just subjective?

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[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 197 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Communities moving to 'chat' based platforms instead of traditional discussion boards is something I've observed a lot in the last few years. Which certainly feel like a step backwards in my view. It keeps happening though, so I must he in the minority opinion on this.

[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 149 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

The quickest way to have me lose all interest in any new, potentially neat, tech is having to visit their discord for anything from documentation to discussion.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

Idk, I used to get my questions about Mirror for Unity answered on Discord either directly or by doing a search and never had a problem with it. I'd never say never.

(Tbf, they do use GitHub and such but the Discord is quite active as well.)

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

How does searching discord work? I was under the impression that entire chat logs weren't permanent and that older exchanges would be routinely deleted.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 hours ago

there's a thing you can add to a server to mirror everything to a proper indexable website: https://www.answeroverflow.com/

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It actually was half way decent til recently, then they just broke the search function for idk reasons. Discord doesn't purge chat to my knowledge.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've searched chat logs that are ancient as all hell. Not sure what lead you to think they purge history. Maybe it's only on the largest servers?

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

They do if the chat gets banned. Which eventually some dingas will do something that will get a community banned. Quite a bit of emulation docs got removed a couple of times this year because people cant take the hint not to talk about how they got their roms and emulators.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think Discord deletes chat logs. I have no idea how it works but I think restricting chat history based on tiers was more of a Slack thing. But maybe I'm wrong and they have permanent boosters who unlock all those perks?

[–] Krzd@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Discord doesn't delete chat logs AFAIK, however one of the permissions prevents you from reading things from before you joined a server/channel

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