RE: Forum loosing to Slack?

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Fernando Fernandez, modified 6 Years ago. Expert Posts: 401 Join Date: 8/22/07 Recent Posts

Hi all,

 

I have the impression that there are some good discussions on the liferay community slack  that should be made public because they could help other people later. 

It seems to me that having support threads through slack diminishes the value of these forums, since you cannot google slack content.

 

HTH

 

Fernando

Olaf Kock, modified 6 Years ago. New Member Post: 1 Join Date: 7/25/11 Recent Posts
Fernando Fernandez:
I have the impression that there are some good discussions on the liferay community slack  that should be made public because they could help other people later. 

Hi Fernando,

I am fully on your side (and, for this - and other - reason(s) not on Slack at all).

In the end: Whatever helps the community is good - I understand that many people "live" on slack these days, and I trust that anybody who asks a question will be helped there quickly. The drawback is exactly what you write here: It's only those that ask who get helped. Quite often people here answer to a question that had its last answer in 2012, signalling that they googled this content and found here because people had similar problems.

I'd like to see this solved as well. Not sure if "moving off of slack" is realistic, but I'd prefer to have a single watering hole.

 

(Edit: Oops, wrong account, reposting with my regular one, I can't delete this message any more)

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Olaf Kock, modified 6 Years ago. Liferay Legend Posts: 6441 Join Date: 9/23/08 Recent Posts
Fernando Fernandez:

I have the impression that there are some good discussions on the liferay community slack  that should be made public because they could help other people later. 

It seems to me that having support threads through slack diminishes the value of these forums, since you cannot google slack content.

Hi Fernando,

I am fully on your side (and, for this - and other - reason(s) not on Slack at all).

In the end: Whatever helps the community is good - I understand that many people "live" on slack these days, and I trust that anybody who asks a question will be helped there quickly. The drawback is exactly what you write here: It's only those that ask who get helped. Quite often people here answer to a question that had its last answer in 2012, signalling that they googled this content and found here because people had similar problems.

I'd like to see this solved as well. Not sure if "moving off of slack" is realistic, but I'd prefer to have a single watering hole.

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Jorge Ferrer, modified 6 Years ago. Liferay Legend Posts: 2871 Join Date: 8/31/06 Recent Posts

+1 from me as well.
 

Let's make the forums great again ;)