As much as I like discord, this forum thingy where you can ask questions and stuff is quite... lacking. The terrible text editor aside, I wanted to find my old questions, that were answered a long time ago (Ideally a list of all of them!) but I cannot manage.
In fact, this is the 2nd time I asked this lol, but since I cannot find the answer I got back then, I guess I'll ask again.
It would be great if this was more like StackOverflow, in the sense that its not just about asking questions and answering them, but its also a lot about browsing those afterwards.
#[META] I love this forum thing where I can ask questions, but how do I review old questions?
night wraith
frozen stream
You can use the regular search function, instead of the forum one.
The problem is that it lists all the comments you made, so you might need to add more search terms.
night wraith
Ah, that seems to do the trick, thanks!
unreal adder
we could probably do something about this
I'm not a discord expert, but the options in "Edit Channel" do offer web hook integrations
so perhaps something could be set up to make things more discoverable
night wraith
I think it would be great to have a Collection of past questions that have been answered that are easy to search for.
Personally I think the biggest barrier to getting into zig is how, in contrast to other languages, you cannot google "How to X in Y".
Usually that would yield StackOverflow answers for most languages, but zig has no such a thing.
Maybe indexing all these questions and putting them into a nice and easy to access them would change that!
night wraith
Now I'm actually curious if this is something I could try to do myself. Maybe I could manually get all the questions I have asked in the past, put them in a json and see if I can use an indexing and searching library or tool to explore it. I think it could be a game changer if implemented properly. I have never really done any searching/indexing in the past tho...
night wraith
Well, it might not be too difficult, aparently elasticsearch is a thing.
It was fairly easy to setup a local server, feed it a text and search it. Its supposed to be fast. So potentially it might not be too crazy to build something like this. Supposing that there is no issue or concern with take every question and answer and directly putting it into a database somewhere lol
https://gist.github.com/OAguinagalde/ec0258d40deee1187f80ec21bd917528
And Solr and Algolia are elasticsearch alternatives I found out, dont know anything about any of these anyway