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by troupo 993 days ago
The problem is that information in Discord is locked away and is completely inaccessible.

As an example. An Elixir library I'm using, Ash, had its support forum on Discord. Just recently they moved it to a proper forum. Here's the immediate result [1]:

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Moving to ElixirForum just benefited me. I googled elixir ash registry to understand what it is and if I still need it (I ended up with it from an example somewhere). The top result was this excellent question and answer

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A forum is always nicer, and is accessible to more people.

[1] https://elixirforum.com/t/ash-community-updates/58515/9