Post AUHoN4kQDaLnnLKoj2 by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
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 (DIR) Post #AUHoN4kQDaLnnLKoj2 by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-04-03T17:55:57Z
       
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       Sorry for the rant, but fuck Discord & what it has done to content & knowledge sharing.Forums are dead, even the big ones. It's rare to get a response in the Unity or Unreal Engine forums.Compare posts from 2014-2018, posts had 5-10 answers, different ppl. Now posts rarely get 1-2 answer or simply disappear.Now w/out hate, how can someone think it's better to ask stuff on Discord? It's a mess, and it's so anxiety inducing, everything mix up. I don't like neither to ask nor to answer there.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUHoN6hewpKTrM3dhI by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-04-03T17:57:12Z
       
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       Now with a forum post, you can structure your question, your examples, media, and it won't mix up with 20 other people talking about 20 other different subjects at the same time.In Discord you write something you keep looking at it waiting for an answer - synchronous.And for whoever answers it, you have to fight between all the jumping new messages.Then suddenly it's gone forever. And 20 ppl later ask the same thing 20 times because the answer won't come on Google. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
       
 (DIR) Post #AUHoN8jrNcHIAl6QPA by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-04-03T17:59:24Z
       
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       Even Stack Overflow is kind of dead nowadays because everything is locked behind Discord servers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUHoNAb4TGR5w50Qz2 by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-04-03T18:05:25Z
       
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       I do my part. I refuse to use Discord. I ask questions in forums or write my own blog posts. I structure my questions with Markdown, GIFs, screenshots, in order for them to be beautifully indexed and searchable.And if I find the answer myself I answer the topic with my findings (and that is the majority of time, due to what I said, forums are dead because everyone is scattered across 1000s of isolated Discord servers).Example of a topic of mine: https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/machine-skeletal-mesh-with-physics-asset-how-to-drop-it-with-gravity-on-without-breaking-the-bones-physics-assets/833922
       
 (DIR) Post #AUHoNCJm4XmxH0veIi by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-04-03T18:08:54Z
       
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       The topic has many answers only from myself. It's like a monologue. Sad thing from a forum with 10s of 1000s of users, but all faded away inside Discord servers.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUHoNDzdqMsAT9WbCK by alfredbaudisch@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2023-04-03T18:24:02Z
       
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       Not all is lost!- #GodotEngine forums and Reddit are active. :godot: - The #ElixirLang forum is very active, probably one of the most active development forums that I'm aware of: https://elixirforum.com/