Concern: Slack vs Google Group vs Stack Overflow etc.

[rpal...@gmail.com]

I'm an Elixir/Phoenix newbie and have noticed that while there is a lot of active traffic in the Slack channels for both Elixir and Phoenix, there is relatively much less traffic on Google groups and even less on Stack Overflow and am concerned that we're not caching the issues raised/resolved in a searchable fashion for future use.

Slack is great for close-to-realtime collaboration and help, but both Google groups and Stack Overflow are much better as the discussions are available for posterity and are search engine searchable. In addition Stack Overflow also signals to interested folks that there is enough activity and help available for new languages and platforms and it aids in their adoption.

Can we do something about it, especially if others share my concerns.

[Chris McCord]

According to my inbox of Stack Overflow notifications, it seem there are plenty of phoenix related questions being asked and answered. As for more realtime areas for help, irc remains the goto place for quick access to help. I don’t believe there’s anything for us to better optimize for than we are currently doing, but if you have ideas, feel free to share.

Chris

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[Rohit Paliwal]

Fair enough. My question was inspired by what I was seeing/interpreting and so I was curious about the fragmentation of information and what other's saw/thought.

Honestly speaking I don't have a good alternate and I guess people who want to find information will find it or ask via IRC/Slack/here/SO etc. so perhaps it's a non-issue.

Thanks!!

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[Wendy Smoak]

This is a concern of mine as well... all those wonderful answers
flying by and not archived in an easily searchable format.

I would love to hang out on IRC all day and document everything! I
can't do that much, but if enough people do a little bit, we can
capture that knowledge.

This is actually a great way for people to get more involved and
contribute to the project, (plus you'll learn a lot trying to
understand the questions other people are asking and reproduce their
issues.)

My suggestion is that if you (not you personally, any of us!) see an
interesting question on IRC or Slack, consider bringing a summary back
here to the list and asking for further explanation or if anyone can
see a way to improve it. Or write a blog post about it, like Jeramy
did recently [1] when Chris helped him understand something. Or patch
the documentation to improve a description or add a new example so
that the next person along doesn't have to ask.

With such a young language and framework there are so many
opportunities right now, that's one of the reasons it's so much fun to
be here. :)

[1] http://www.jeramysingleton.com/phoenix-templates-are-just-functions/

-Wendy

[Rohit Paliwal]

+1

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