I don’t understand how devs can be too lazy to write documentation but somehow they’d rather explain the same shit in discord over and over and over and over and over and over
Why is discord so popular in non-gaming circles? People use it as a shitty, bloated and centralized IRC clone, with the voice fuction being completely ignored.
I’m no discord fan but my recent attempts with using IRC failed because I had incorrect reverse dns or some shit like that. Obviously I have no control over that in a consumer connection.
There are still better alternatives than Discord, though :)
As someone who writes fairly extensive documentation, I can assure you that it doesn’t matter. People will still ask questions in your Discord that are answered in your documentation.
I’ve learned that you kind of have to strike a balance between being terse enough that people will read it and verbose enough that it’s actually helpful, but there is a minimum number of questions you will always get.
I don’t understand how devs can be too lazy to write documentation but somehow they’d rather explain the same shit in discord over and over and over and over and over and over
The help command is one of the first things I work on in any project. Even if I’m never gonna share it, my future self will appreciate it.
Even on simple scripts, it’s so help to remind yourself however the hell you made it work.
I always document a lot because I forget what I was doing one week after.
Why is discord so popular in non-gaming circles? People use it as a shitty, bloated and centralized IRC clone, with the voice fuction being completely ignored.
bc everyone is a gamer, and using another chatting app is just adding more clutter
I’m no discord fan but my recent attempts with using IRC failed because I had incorrect reverse dns or some shit like that. Obviously I have no control over that in a consumer connection.
There are still better alternatives than Discord, though :)
Easy: people who still use Discord have brain rot
Why?
i write poorly documented code on my solo projects because i am lonely
I write buggy software so that users will email me.
I think it’s loneliness, honestly.
That and corporate work environment tends to rewards those that can explain stuff vocally ad nauseum.
As someone who writes fairly extensive documentation, I can assure you that it doesn’t matter. People will still ask questions in your Discord that are answered in your documentation.
I’ve learned that you kind of have to strike a balance between being terse enough that people will read it and verbose enough that it’s actually helpful, but there is a minimum number of questions you will always get.
At work, I am one of the few who actually documents. Not only with Doxygen, but I also write real documents regarding all kinds of topics.
Guess what? “I know you have this documented somewhere, but could you just quickly explain again how this common task works?”