Ancestors

Written by benwis 🦀 on 2024-08-22 at 23:04

Should an open source project have a forum as well as a Discord? Thinking about mirroring Discord to Discourse so we can get some searchability for Leptos issues. #rust #webdev #rustlang

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Written by Negative12DollarBill on 2024-08-22 at 23:05

@benwis

If your only support/documentation is Discord, you have neither.

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Descendants

Written by benwis 🦀 on 2024-08-22 at 23:05

@negative12dollarbill Not documentation, we have a lovely book and rust docs. This is purely for community

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Written by Negative12DollarBill on 2024-08-22 at 23:25

@benwis Only a couple of years ago, I would've said "start and moderate your own subreddit" but now Reddit is poisoned, which makes me sad.

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Written by :verified: Pasties on 2024-08-23 at 00:02

@benwis @negative12dollarbill I think one of the problems is that community discussion areas is where a lot of organic diagnostics and operational wisdom will get discussed. It takes extra dedicated effort to translate that back into documentation.

When the discussion area isn't easily searchable (and the gate of joining and managing another micro community server is a barrier, as is the quality of Discord's search) you end up with duplicate diagnostic effort from your users, and the masking of tiny issues that are solved through "community wisdom".

Disqus I don't think is a great solution, both for the searchability issue (people will almost always end up using one or the other fracturing an already small community) and as a technical Q&A platform but the latter is only my personal opinion.

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Written by benwis 🦀 on 2024-08-23 at 00:59

@pasties @negative12dollarbill if I can make discord and discourse interoperate seamlessly than perhaps I can avoid that. It'll have to be an experiment

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Written by stateful being on 2024-08-23 at 08:00

@benwis @pasties @negative12dollarbill

this sounds like something a lot of people would be interested in seeing

if you manage to pull this off i would be happy to read a technical writeup and share it with people

even if it's not seamless but a temporary measure to help people migrate from discord to discourse (or any self-hosted forum)

literally anything that opens up the way for communities to migrate away from that toxic platform is immensely valuable 👍

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