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did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months 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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[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of open source projects redirect to a discord or private discussion system like slack (even worse).

And it doesn’t help at all because it can’t be indexed and can quickly disappear on a while on the admin side. You can also be banned for no reason. Searching those platforms is horrendous, I don’t want to search a badly indexed system and then ask a question because I can’t find the answer to a problem, and be told it has been discussed 30 times.

Give me a bloody wiki or old fashioned phpbb forum.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it can’t be indexed and can quickly disappear on a while on the admin side.

On a whim? Also, Google will be disabling it's caching feature soon.

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Lucky google isn’t the only search engine then