According to what someone said earlier, the largest volume of Julia questions anywhere occurs on slack. Someone said 100:1 Slack:Discourse though a cursory look at slack now suggests that’s a big over estimate (correct?). I believe someone created an opt-in bridge so that those questions could be st…

Agreed it’s an issue. See the other linked posts above, folks are against this so for now, the status quo lives on.

[image] samerb: But I think permanence and searchability/googlability are very important to making Julia easier to learn and spreading the word about it. I agree and the number of low-quality questions and the high rate of questions with no answer in the bridged topic probably makes it much h…

[image] samerb: there is no good reason to not opt-in I would take this one step further: there is no good reason for a Julia user looking for help not just to use Discourse directly, as is.

Low rate of opt-in for the Discourse Bridge on the Slack Help Desk

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ToucheSir May 4, 2021, 4:49pm 2

ICYMI, the bridge has been offline for over a month now: Bridging Slack's #Helpdesk and Discourse (Proposal, feedback welcome!) - #44 by logankilpatrick

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Low rate of opt-in for the Discourse Bridge on the Slack Help Desk

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