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    ditch discord! (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    1. person looking ahead. the text below him says, "wow a cool software. let's check out the community"
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      Community
      The main place where the community gathers is our Discord server. Feel free to join there to ask questions, help out others, share cool things you created with Typst, or just to chat.

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Amongst many other reasons, my biggest is it's not searchable by search engines.

    That's why we made forum.2009scape.org for our project. Yet the SEO is so bad that nobody finds anything we put there anyways.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    At that point it still has an advantage over discord in that if I know it exists I can narrow the search on Google (if it's still not showing up, then there's a misconfiguration going on)

    With discord I have to join the community and hope that discord search isn't shit.

    Oh and I'm not gonna install discord on my work laptop—so if I'm looking at something for work I'm shit outta luck

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

    If you explicitly add site:ourforum or quotes around large blocks of text, our forum does show up, but to appear anywhere near the front page naturally is a full-time job and not something we have the resources to dedicate.

    I think, unfortunately, things like GitHub discussions are the best place for users to find things off Google, but at the end of the day you're still trusting a profit driven proprietary company

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

    Yeah I'd agree it's a bit shit that it often has to end up somewhere like GitHub, but it's at least searchable, which (for me at least) is an absolute necessity for any community where people go to troubleshoot.

    Tbh, using "site:blah" is what I'm referring to when I say about narrowing the search. Kinda just do that if I know roughly where I'm looking in order to cut through the shit, but I'll put my hands up that maybe that's not especially typical.