This happens to line up quite a bit with my own work because I regularly browse and even post on programming forums depending on where. You're correct, the veteran programmers who actually know their shit seem to have moved on from these types of places precisely because of this nonsense.

There was a big drama not so long ago involving Unity game engine, once because there was a pretty significant security breach through node.JS where a Ukrainian activist managed to brick several peoples' PCs allegedly because they were targeting Russian IP addresses and even left a note through the auto-update function. This affected users of discord and unity who even if they weren't on Russian IPs got a text file on their desktop.

Second was the infamous Unity Ironsource merger, a company that I hadn't known about until then but was allegedly pretty notorious for harvesting data among other things and an ex-EA executive was behind all of this. Everyone started jumping ship even a mod I saw on the Unity forums who got completely fed up of the Unity staff's bullshit. I also imagine that them covering up the fact the breach happened didn't do wonders for confidence.

Quite a lot of Unity programmers including myself went over to Godot forums and that's now the main hangout for a lot of devs I feel. Either that or they went over to Unreal instead but I think a lot in the indie scene can't stomach the idea of Epic any more than gamers can.

I bring all this up because it's important to note all the detail happening in the background. In spite of everything, there's general agreement even on the Godot forums that we don't want to see free speech ruined on the site. When a Ukrainian activist tried to start shit over there they were shut down immediately which is great.

Yeah, you're not going to find good programming discussion on many of these mainstream sites anymore. It's been frustrating for me switching engines even though it's worth it in the long run because I'm having to often make fresh threads on very specific topics that aren't covered in the documentation to make sure not only I but others have up to date information on various programming topics and focus the autism a bit.

The bot problem with these sites certainly doesn't help things much, useless moderators caring more about political posts than keeping the place free of spam.

This happens to line up quite a bit with my own work because I regularly browse and even post on programming forums depending on where. You're correct, the veteran programmers who actually know their shit seem to have moved on from these types of places precisely because of this nonsense.

There was a big drama not so long ago involving Unity game engine, once because there was a pretty significant security breach through node.JS where a Ukrainian activist managed to brick several peoples' PCs allegedly because they were targeting Russian IP addresses and even left a note through the auto-update function. This affected users of discord and unity who even if they weren't on Russian IPs got a text file on their desktop.

Second was the infamous Unity Ironsource merger, a company that I hadn't known about until then but was allegedly pretty notorious for harvesting data among other things and an ex-EA executive was behind all of this. Everyone started jumping ship even a mod I saw on the Unity forums who got completely fed up of the Unity staff's bullshit. I also imagine that them covering up the fact the breach happened didn't do wonders for confidence.

Quite a lot of Unity programmers including myself went over to Godot forums and that's now the main hangout for a lot of devs I feel. Either that or they went over to Unreal instead but I think a lot in the indie scene can't stomach the idea of Epic any more than gamers can.

I bring all this up because it's important to note all the detail happening in the background. In spite of everything, there's general agreement even on the Godot forums that we don't want to see free speech ruined on the site. When a Ukrainian activist tried to start shit over there they were shut down immediately which is great.

Yeah, you're not going to find good programming discussion on many of these mainstream sites anymore. It's been frustrating for me switching engines even though it's worth it in the long run because I'm having to often make fresh threads on very specific topics that aren't covered in the documentation to make sure not only I but others have up to date information on various programming topics and focus the autism a bit.