Comment on FLOSS communities right now
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 9 months ago
I get this post and everyone's comments here. You're not wrong. The issues is we often have to go where people already are. It's annoying, it's inefficient, but ultimately the best tool is worthless if no one comes over to it. Classic chicken-egg problem ultimately.
crispy_kilt@feddit.de 9 months ago
The people go where the content is.
Create the content in a sane place and the people will follow.
peak_dunning_krueger@feddit.de 9 months ago
This is objectively not true, because social network effects are in place and there is a switching cost.
technom@programming.dev 9 months ago
That’s not the case for open source projects. There are many projects that use Discourse as their primary support channel. There seems to be no dearth of users asking questions there.