did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums?
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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No, don't trouble yourselves, I'll just use something else.
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.
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