[Notice] Redirect your questions to Github/Reddit/Discord

Hi. As you might have noticed, we use these forums for announcements and do not triage the posts a lot. Please refer to the following links to get your questions answered. The forum remains open for those that cannot use other mediums.

Links for discussions, issues, etc:

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I do not use Reddit, Discord is banned where I live so all I’m left with is Github, which is not a good place for regular discussions. I don’t think this was a good decision, but I understand.

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I re-enabled it but the notice remains up none-the-less.

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Thank you for your understanding :slight_smile: Notice is definitely a good idea so people understand which medium to use for official help. Thanks again.

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I appreciate this too. Maybe I’m overly pedantic, but I dislike Discord in particular given you’re one is throwing the entire history of supporting a project into their proprietary black hole. Reddit is… fine, but it’s not yours. And I agree GitHub isn’t the right place for general chat.

This feels like an appropriate and important forum to have available, even if it’s just user-to-user. Thanks for keeping it open. :+1:

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?? Our archives are on the web:

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Oh, that’s cool. I didn’t know that was a thing, and I hope more projects use it. :+1:

So, Github now directs people to this place for questions, and this place now directs people to Github for questions.

Where on the github are they directing people here? Can you explain?

New Issue → Questions and Feedback

Thank you, it is removed now.

So, how should questions be handled on Github now? Just using a blank issue with maybe a [Question] in the title?

I am using discord over a matrix-bridge, so I need serverID and channelID to connect to the discord. On the website and here in discourse I only found the invitation-link.

Can you post the serverID and channelID too?

Thanks!

Not a fan of this decision to be honest, I prefer forums like this, I’ve banned myself from Discord, I hate it, consumed to much of my life, and everything is hidden away, which I really dislike, I want my struggles and fixes to hardware and software to be public, for others to see, Reddit is okay, but can be toxic, so I guess it will be Github then, not a good approach though, Github is not really a good choice for a forum, having information and people spread out all over the place instead of one central hub can be bad for people trying to self help, so to find if there is help for a given subject or information on something, one will now need to check Reddit, sign up for, install/log into Discord, check Github, and also check here.

To many projects are on Discord, Matrix, Telegram etc, I really miss the days of forums like this one, allowing others to read and self triage issues without having to bother anyone, no barriers, no restrictions and easy to find.

The choice has been reverted already. We asked, they listened, forum is back. Nothing to worry about :slight_smile:

Also, I couldn’t have said it better. It’s really saddening to see every community being offloaded to some sort of social media nowadays.

That’s great to hear, I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy about Bazzite again :slight_smile:

I was just watching some videos on educating myself more on bootc and I would like to play and learn more about the system and see what I can create myself, and its nice to have one place I can share this away from Social Media, as I’m not a fan, the only Platform I’m on is YouTube, and that is really only to share some of my love for 3D printing and share the things I create for free.

I would just like to say thanks to the devs behind all of the these projects built from universal-blue, and I think a lot of others, specially newbies to Linux also appreciate the hard work, as they have certainly made things much more palatable in my opinion.