If you're lucky, your language/library/etc might have a fairly active IRC channel or similar. Popular languages often have a myriad of channels dedicated to different subtopics.
They're nice because like you said, discussion can be much more helpful than a single answer.
However, one issue I've run into with the rise of chat and SO, and removal of forums, is that if your question isn't the right fit for SO, and is a bit tricky/time consuming, it's easy for your query to be buried.
I reached out to the TypeScript community via Discord about assistance on how one would add TypeScript definitions to an existing JS repo. Got a little discussion, IIRC, and then because of other factors, was buried.
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If you're lucky, your language/library/etc might have a fairly active IRC channel or similar. Popular languages often have a myriad of channels dedicated to different subtopics.
They're nice because like you said, discussion can be much more helpful than a single answer.
Great suggestion.
However, one issue I've run into with the rise of chat and SO, and removal of forums, is that if your question isn't the right fit for SO, and is a bit tricky/time consuming, it's easy for your query to be buried.
I reached out to the TypeScript community via Discord about assistance on how one would add TypeScript definitions to an existing JS repo. Got a little discussion, IIRC, and then because of other factors, was buried.