I think I’m just kind of being somewhat extreme about it too. I mean, like, Microsoft has had support forums in the past. (I think even some that have been removed, etc) Lots of stuff like this moved to reddit, but I could see it possibly being successful with federation today.
(There were reasons it failed, like, bad UI, miserable account control, differences in how answers were displayed, etc)
Exactly! That’s why I started the MAUI Community here. We used to have a thriving and vibrant Xamarin forum, then Microsoft shut it down and started what was supposed to be a new, more general one on one of their own domains, but all it achieved was it killed the community that we had. So Lemmy is quite similar to a forum (just lacks the ability to have a sub-topics hierarchy like the Xamarin forum had), so here I am trying to re-establish the Xamarin (now MAUI) community that we used to have. :-)
I think I’m just kind of being somewhat extreme about it too. I mean, like, Microsoft has had support forums in the past. (I think even some that have been removed, etc) Lots of stuff like this moved to reddit, but I could see it possibly being successful with federation today.
(There were reasons it failed, like, bad UI, miserable account control, differences in how answers were displayed, etc)
Exactly! That’s why I started the MAUI Community here. We used to have a thriving and vibrant Xamarin forum, then Microsoft shut it down and started what was supposed to be a new, more general one on one of their own domains, but all it achieved was it killed the community that we had. So Lemmy is quite similar to a forum (just lacks the ability to have a sub-topics hierarchy like the Xamarin forum had), so here I am trying to re-establish the Xamarin (now MAUI) community that we used to have. :-)