Hello! My honest opinion about Strapi Forum. I’m a part of community since late Strapi v3. Nowadays i’m running and maintaining 6 projects on Strapi4, developing another 2 with v5.
Most helpful (for me) things for solving appearing problems are (sorted in most value for me)
- Discord Open Office Hours (huge thanks for this opportunity),
- Documentation and KapaAI (still need a lot of job here),
- Official Youtube channel and Blog (huge thanks for content and how-to’s)
- Searching and Forum (often provides outdated info)
When developing a product, it is often necessary to find an operational solution to the problem. The forum cannot cope with the task in time to give a hint, since you can not get the answer to the question asked at all. Therefore, the forum remains in the smallest priority as operational assistance.
As a contributor to a Telegram’s community i can provide a poll (votes for 7 days) results from some part of community which meets and begins development with Strapi
Overall
- Fair enough to make Forum read-only till Strapi 4 will be active.
- Github Discussions not looks like convenient way to handle it forum-alike but it might be the place for it
- Discord nowadays best place to get answer in shortest time, cuz all team in-touch there
- I would gave preference to the stability of the product than spending money and effort to maintain the forum - cuz this will provides better product, better docs, better ecosystem. Forum it is not a preference.
Also i understand and agree with important highlights that mentioned up here:
Discord and GitHub (haha) - it is aside platform and no trust in future
SEO - yes, need some platform/resource in the web which will be Strapi’s owned and well indexed by search robots.
Anyway, thank you all in Strapi Team! Great job!