• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      IRC and Discord are by far the worst. It’s the perfect way to ask a question and have no searchable index of the question or response, so next time someone has it, they need to ask again.

      Big waste of time for everyone involved

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        2 years ago

        In IRC it is a bit difficult to pose a multi faceted problem like this due to the nature of the medium. It’s one of the downsides.

        You can try asking the questions piecemeal. For example, “I am looking for an implementation of storing comments along with the revision history to use as reference. Any pointers?” in a channel like #postgresql on irc.libera.chat or #mysql if it exists.

        Apart from IRC you can try posting on a database oriented subreddit. For databases I don’t know a better place. Sorry about that.