[rcarmo]

I was on the Kubernetes slack and I’ve found it much better than any of the multiple horrors that I’ve expected in Discord. It was even (somewhat) searchable.

But in the end, I never really relied on it for finding information, and am kind of sad that people keep creating chat communities instead of searchable forums.

I also think people overrate chat for actual learning or resolving issues. Even back in the IRC days, asking a question almost never yielded an immediate reply—-quite often you’d have to come back the day after and ask again, or check your DMs on screen overnight.

Forums let you ask and check for replies later, or search for similar questions, or even (shudder) get an e-mail reply, and Discord does exactly none of those things in a way that I find effective or productive.