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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to ask questions that don't fit s... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:44AM (#31493582)
I would almost never join a Discord/Slack to ask some specific question; I always ask people I already know. The level of effort is pretty high! Join, learn rules, figure out where and how to ask a question, then sit there and monitor things synchronously so people don't ignore you/forget you.

I really, really miss the abundance of forums. The only thing like them left these days with any sort of population is subreddits. There are still forums dedicated to niche topics, but they're rare.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to ask questions that don't fit s... by the_only_law on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:50AM (#31493640)
There’s been a handful of times where the answer to my question exists seemingly only on some old Usenet archive.
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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to ask questions that don't fit s... by yeetard on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @11:50AM (#31493643)
The question is, why did they disappear? Did people just stop caring about things? Who in the right mind would ever want to use reddit -in general- and who would want to use it as long as there is a traditional forum for <topic>?
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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to ask questions that don't fit s... by pavel_lishin on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:47PM (#31494457)
Reddit is _fine_ for this; it's just another place to host forums. The significant problem with reddit is that you have less control over it than an independent forum - but even with independent forums, someone can always take their ball and go home. (Usenet doens't suffer from this, though.)

And I don't know why it disappeared! Maybe because Slack and Discord finally opened up group chat to the masses who didn't like IRC. (Like it or not, Slack and Discord have defacto replaced IRC as the systems of choice for most people who don't know what DNS stands for.)

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to ask questions that don't fit s... by the_only_law on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @02:35PM (#31495874)
Reddit would have been fine if they didn’t make the UX as god awful as possible on a mobile browser. The day they cut off the old. subdomain I think they’ll be in for a surprise.
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