• RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    For open source, I almost always found IRC was a black hole of information. All kinds of developers discussing things that never made it to search engines. It’s a long tradition.

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      1 year ago

      As a dev, far easier to answer questions about my code than write up documentation, so makes total sense to me

      With discord at least you can usually search chat history for your question and find someone else asking it in the past

      I wonder… Might be able to write a language model based crawler that goes through a discord server and pulls out all the useful information to generate documentation or at least a FAQ