The communities are back, and the subs are active. Why not returning ?
It doesn’t work well to visit a different website for each topic.
I’m not returning for the same reasons I left in the first place. If you need a refresher on what those were, you’ll find at least one post on the topic stickied on my user profile there, and IIRC still stickied to the top of the sub as well, in the “So Long and Thanks For All the Fish” post.
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I’m happy with the community that is building here.
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I’ve always found Reddit inferior to forums like this. It’s much easier to bookmark and follow topics on a forum, and I get an email notifying me of new replies so I can search my emails in future if I need a reminder about where I can find a particular answer.
On Reddit, because there’s so many different subs for different things, I end up saving thousands of posts and its very hard to find a particular post again in future.
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Another vote of appreciation for Discourse and this website. I enjoy the email summaries I get here, and having a place focused on ZFS topics is refreshing.
Without Christian Selig’s Apollo app, I gave up posting to Reddit. And with Reddit selling its users posts to LLM companies to train models on… seems unlikely in the future I would even need to visit the site when searching for answers.
Hoping the community here continues to grow over time.
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No one stopping you if you want to go back.
However, reddit has proven that they don’t give a single flying f**k about their user base.
I’d actually be happy if forums made more of a comeback. I’m not super fond of reddit or discord as support communities.
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I know, I don’t know why everyone loves discord. It is so hard to search and find anything.
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Discord is for fevered, ephemeral shitposting. And it’s good for that! Anything more serious… eh.
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While I am not super active on here, I find it enjoyable to just read which Reddit had turned into impossible to do. Also everyone has been calm, even when I ask things that are probably answered in the manual.
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I am also mostly a reader of this forum, though I agree with the sentiment that it is far superior to Reddit.
I follow a lot of discourse forums and aggregate them via RSS. I can go to a singular place to read but also get the benefits of independent forums.
I use FreshRSS (running via docker) and read via the Reeder app on iOS and NewsFlash on Linux.
I don’t use it personally, but we should have a working RSS feed here, btw.
Yeah, two 
for reddit.
To @mercenary_sysadmin’s point, the RSS feature of Discourse is very handy.
For example, if you want to access the feed for OpenZFS, just add the following to your reader:
The link for the one box above is the following:
https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/c/openzfs/4.rss
The following post on Disburse Meta has loads more information about how to utilize the Discourse RSS features.
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Thank you for linking that! If I’m being honest, the only thing I really know about our RSS feed is that it exists, because I read up on the docs enough to make it available when one of the Patreons requested it. 
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Admittedly, I “own”/moderate a Discourse based forum myself and learned about it after setting it up and also getting a request from a user about it.
I like the idea behind RSS and the open nature of it, I just don’t use it a lot anymore. I used to be obsessed with the news, for years, and my primary way of ingesting it was RSS.
I host my own FreshRSS instance, because I find it by far less distracting to read all of my usual tech news sites in one place rather than having to go to 13 individual websites.
It’s also handy to follow when new versions of popular software are released, because you can usually get RSS feeds for their forums or release pages. Such as OpnSense or Unifi’s Network Controller.
And yes, it is mostly how I keep up with things here, I have the feed with popular posts as one of the ones I subscribe to!
I quite like it.
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And, thanks for that. I use RSS daily
I’m really glad there’s now an independent repository where ZFS community knowledge can accumulate instead of being subject to the priorities of Reddit’s major shareholders.
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You definitely do! I use it daily, thank you!
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