[mobjack]

You ask someone in slack. If that isn't sufficient, set up a small 1 on 1 meeting to discuss.

You can't avoid all meetings, but you can keep them few and small.

[twobitshifter]

In long running projects, the people who know the answer may no longer be around.

[Macha]

Now my ability to find something is limited by someone else's availability, and everywhere I've seen this culture it's devolved into the same 1-2 people answering all the questions as not everyone has a built up map of who knows what.

[koonsolo]

After you are the 3rd person who contacted me for the same thing, the next one better read the fking documentation that I write.