Re:Reclaim the Stack
by callalex on Sunday September 08, 2024 @07:54PM
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Locking knowledge behind something that isn’t publicly searchable or archivable works fine in the short term but what happens when Discord/Slack/whatever gears up for an IPO and limits all chat history to 1 week unless you pay up (oh and now you have a bunch of valuable knowledge stored up their with no migration tool so your only options are “pay up” or lose the knowledge).
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What’s recommended here? Self-hosted Discourse?
Re:Reclaim the Stack
by heavyset_go on Sunday September 08, 2024 @10:34PM
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Matrix and a wiki would solve the community and knowledge base issues.
Matrix has severe UX issues which drastically limit the community willing to use it on a regular basis.
historically, yes. matrix 2.0 (due in two weeks) aims to fix this.
Re:Reclaim the Stack
by tacker2000 on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:07AM
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Github issues or discussions.
Or some other kind of forum like Discourse as you mentioned
No-one complained when projects had IRC channels/servers, which are even worse since they have no history at all.
All IRC clients have local plain text logging and putting a .txt on a web server is trivial.
Local logging doesn't help much for searchability when you're new and it requires you to be online 24/7. Anyway, that's beside the point. Even if IRC had built-in server history it still has the same problems but I never saw people being outraged about it.
Good projects still do rely on IRC -- Libera.chat is full of proper channels -- and logging bots are ubiquitous.
And you never hear anyone complaining about those. "Locking knowledge" was never an argument before and it's not now.