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did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks 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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[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 230 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Communities moving to 'chat' based platforms instead of traditional discussion boards is something I've observed a lot in the last few years. Which certainly feel like a step backwards in my view. It keeps happening though, so I must he in the minority opinion on this.

[–] Pissmidget@lemmy.world 180 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

The quickest way to have me lose all interest in any new, potentially neat, tech is having to visit their discord for anything from documentation to discussion.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 117 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Join our Discord!

No, don't trouble yourselves, I'll just use something else.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago

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

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