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Hit this exact wall last month trying to find a changelog for a small CLI tool — the notes were pinned in a Discord I'd never heard of. A GitHub release page or even an RSS feed takes an afternoon to set up and stays searchable forever.

Amen.

A lot of organizations do this same thing internally with Microsoft Teams !!! Drives me up the fuckin wall

what if Discord announcements could be a publicly available site tho we're cooking stuff up discord.com/announcement...

It's also pathetic. Like what good can your product be if you're unable to do a simple blog post?

Developers: ask questions in the discord also developers: Oh my god everyone keeps asking the same questions over and over in the discord.

If you have an announcement which is directed at your community, and meant to inform them of current or upcoming things, and you post it *exclusively* to a chat service and no public facing sites, you are wrong

On top of that, it's not fun scrolling all the way back in the chat history hoping to find a vital piece of information that would help one resolve a certain issue. I went through that once and cursed everything in the process.

I would develop a smart bot that is going to read the questions and sort them by the type of question. That way I know what people ask without having to read every single one while staying open to my audience. Pragmatic thinking is what many devs lack

Having an up to date website is underratedly powerful IMO. Can be as simple as possible even, just current and connected