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did user engagement drop significantly in programming forums? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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There was a lot of engagement in the communities I participate up until a couple of years ago. People were interested and actively discussing a lot of topics. There were a lot of newbies asking questions and people proposing different ways for tasks.

Is it just me or did it reduce a lot? LLMs? Company forums? Other forums I did not move to (e.g. discord)? Reduced interest? Or is it just subjective?

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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tangentially, there's a whole bunch of issues going on with the programming.dev server for one. See at !meta@programming.dev. Lemmy's upcoming upgrade to 0.19.6 should help - see https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4623 and https://feddit.org/post/3524876 discussing it.

[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't talking about programming.dev. i thought that's obvious because p.dev isn't that old

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 2 weeks ago

I did mention that it was only tangentially related. I did not realize though that programming.dev was not all that old. TIL.