Aaron, That is a very valuable point. +1
Just FYI, we have been encouraging people to ask questions in StackOverflow. But it doesn't work out well. - Sijie On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 9:49 AM Aaron Williams <aaron.willi...@datastax.com> wrote: > > Hello Apache Pulsar Community, > > Many of us community members were having a conversation about Slack and how > it is not working very well as a tool to answer questions from the wider > community and we should try to push more of the questions to Stack > Overflow. > > We would like to suggest- > > 1. > > Add a link to stack overflow to the contact page of the website: > https://pulsar.apache.org/en/contact/ > 2. > > Add text to the webpage stating that we recommend that if you have a > technical question, please ask it on Stack Overflow > 3. > > On Slack, we encourage them to post their question to Stack Overflow > > > Reasons: > > - > > We are on the free version of Slack and thus all questions/answers > before the middle of June are lost (10k messages max). > - > > We answer the same question over and over. > - > > We want to make it easier for our community to find the answers. > - > > Developers expect answers to be on Stack Overflow > - > > It is easier to copy and paste an error message into Google and if it > has been posted to Stack Overflow, then the questioner will find the answer > quickly. > - > > Slack is not searchable by Google, plus we won’t lose the > question/answer after 5 weeks > > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > > Aaron Williams
