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[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But I also don't want to make zillions accounts, one for each project, just for a quick question.

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You mean pretty much a single GitHub account?

Also your quick question may have already been asked and answered but difficult to find on Discord. Or if it hasn't been asked yet, now a future person can't discover the same question easily. So either way you're just wasting other people's time.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That "Discord" can be replaced with any IM platforms. Slack, Martix, Gitter, you name it. They are still hard to search. By no means I like the idea of using IM platforms as a support portal/community. I still think forums-like platforms are the best, yet I don't want to create another account to engage with a project that I use.

Github, Lemmy and Stack Exchange enables one account for multiple projects/topics, which I quite like. Or mailing lists. That can do as well.

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the clarification and I believe I misunderstood your original comment.

To add to your list there is an often underutilized feature of GitHub for discussions too.