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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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[-] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 181 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 117 points 3 weeks ago

Join our Discord!

No, don't trouble yourselves, I'll just use something else.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Lol I can't remember if it was sync or Lemmy that tried to get me on their discord server recently. I go to join, and it asked for some kind of ID verification. Like dude, I didn't have to do this for your actual app. As you might guess, I did not join the server.

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I keep joining discord rooms because I just want to search for something specific real quick... I don't want to dig up my real account or join, I just want to take a peek inside and dig up the answer to my question

Almost every time I sign up with a username and get just enough time to start looking for what I need before it decides to kick me out for "suspicious activity"

At this point I just search the project name when it happens... I'm usually there to evaluate a project, and if that's not enough I just drop it

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

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 13 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

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 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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 13 points 3 weeks 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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