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Ask your questions on discourse.nixos.org please - the documentation situation in Nix-land is generally exactly as you have noted, which means centralised question-asking in well-known locations is much much more helpful for Those Who Come After.



I say this with the utmost respect for those who work hard to answer questions on discourse, but I have found it singularly unhelpful.

I strongly encourage the Nix community to embrace a mainstream Q&A platform like StackOverflow or GitHub Issues.

Nix is “weird” enough for beginners already, the kind of janky interface and uneven moderation/quality on discourse is IMHO self-defeating for Nix.


Agree. I feel the same way about OCaml, and I have forced myself to ask every questions I have on SO to build the list of answers there. Yet, people tend to answer on SO with “you should ask on the OCaml discourse”…


Aside: I love the Discourse UI. It feels easy and thoroughly modern to me. What's janky about it, in your opinion?


I also do not like it for different reasons (one of them is that they hijack ctrl+F)


Ah yeah, that behavior is annoying. At least if you hit it twice, you get the normal in-browser thing




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