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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    8 hours ago

    Idk, I used to get my questions about Mirror for Unity answered on Discord either directly or by doing a search and never had a problem with it. I’d never say never.

    (Tbf, they do use GitHub and such but the Discord is quite active as well.)

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      7 hours ago

      How does searching discord work? I was under the impression that entire chat logs weren’t permanent and that older exchanges would be routinely deleted.

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        6 hours ago

        I’ve searched chat logs that are ancient as all hell. Not sure what lead you to think they purge history. Maybe it’s only on the largest servers?

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        I don’t think Discord deletes chat logs. I have no idea how it works but I think restricting chat history based on tiers was more of a Slack thing. But maybe I’m wrong and they have permanent boosters who unlock all those perks?

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          Discord doesn’t delete chat logs AFAIK, however one of the permissions prevents you from reading things from before you joined a server/channel