When you:
- have transcended the need for tutorials
- have learned troubleshooting methodology
- can look up error messages in your favourite search engine, or grep through the code
- can read the source code when in doubt
it feels like there's no reason to use forums anymore... :(
@wolf480pl I grew up reading gamedev forums. I usually lurked, but I really enjoyed seeing the projects other people were working on. I guess mastodon/twitter end up covering that now, but I liked the focus on just the projects and not the anything goes as on social media.
@louispearson IMO, socnets totally don't cover that. They're not focused on a topic.
If I said "backface culling" how many of my followers would know what I'm referring to?
@wolf480pl I don't know, I swear I've seen people discus graphics programming on twitter. I would probably follow anyone who did talk about those subjects. The biggest problem is that I don't always want 100% of everybody's posts. Lots of people like to vent about everything, which is fine, but I only have so much bandwidth for hearing about issues before it's too stressful. This is the main reason I stopped using twitter.
