Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks
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@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
Historically, ServerFault really pioneered the space for having an online IT site that had value (ExpertSexchange was older, but useless.) Before SF the world was basically email lists that got published, it was awful.
I hope all those procedures are done by experts....
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@rojoloco Freudian slip? Hahaha (jk)
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@nashbrydges just a great choice in capitalization.
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Worth a quick read:
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@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
There is Reddit, but it is awful.
Reddit depends HEAVILY on the subreddit. /r/sysadmin is a hit or miss (too many people from too many different size shops and experiance levels there). /r/storage has a few smart guys (NIMSO and what not) that I've had some good conversations with. /r/VMware outside of the VMware Community forums is a good place to get a question bounced off a few VCDX's.
TalesFromTechSupport is fairly hilarious somedays (again, hit or miss).
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I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
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@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Any interesting Slack groups we should know about?
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@fateknollogee said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Any interesting Slack groups we should know about?
All mine are private
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My company's internal slack is pretty interesting (20K employee's tons of whom are software engineers). It's how my remote team organizes things. The Veeam one is good (Vanguards and Veeam Certified people), the vExpert one is amazing (like 400 smart infrastructure people who between them know just about everything you would want to know about any topic). Part of what I like about Slack Teams and Subreddits is they have purposes and some degree of focus.
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https://www.technibble.com/forums/
It's more focussed towards IT business owners, (though most businesses there aren't running huge operations, a lot of one-man shows) and they'll boot anyone who isn't at least a tech. It's a pretty close knit community, with people often going the extra mile to help a fellow member out.
I'd say it's a very different community than Spiceworks. Expertise level is lower in some areas, but in other areas there some very different discussions going on. It can be a refreshing breaking from all the reoccurring posts about the same thing happening over and over that you see on Spiceworks. A decent amount of data recovery experts on there too that are always willing to give some good insight.
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@flaxking said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
It can be a refreshing breaking from all the reoccurring posts about the same thing happening over and over that you see on Spiceworks.
That's one of teh biggest pain points there. It's all just five questions rehashed every day. Posters acting like no one has talked about this before, and responders sick to death of people that have done zero research and never read anything.
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If I don't find it here Google is my friend.
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@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
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@flaxking said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
A decent amount of data recovery experts on there too that are always willing to give some good insight.
Sounds like a group that needs some backup providers to jump in there.
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@scotth said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
Super expensive (or crazy limited) instant messaging platform for internal users. It's like Rocket or Mattermost but only hosted and too expensive for any real use.
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@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
Super expensive (or crazy limited) instant messaging platform for internal users. It's like Rocket or Mattermost but only hosted and too expensive for any real use.
yet tons of companies are using it. Sure perhaps not as many that you have heard of...
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@dashrender said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scotth said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@storageninja said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
I honestly spend more time on Slack these days than forums.
Slack?
Super expensive (or crazy limited) instant messaging platform for internal users. It's like Rocket or Mattermost but only hosted and too expensive for any real use.
yet tons of companies are using it. Sure perhaps not as many that you have heard of...
Because companies primarily focus on marketing.
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@scottalanmiller This is very much a pet peeve of mine w/Spiceworks. If you've not spent all of 5 minutes researching an issue I'm not helping you. Also if you can't articulate what you're actually needing help with I'm not wasting 30 minutes of posting to get clarification in order to assist you.
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@r3dpand4 said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller This is very much a pet peeve of mine w/Spiceworks. If you've not spent all of 5 minutes researching an issue I'm not helping you. Also if you can't articulate what you're actually needing help with I'm not wasting 30 minutes of posting to get clarification in order to assist you.
I was just talking to @QuixoticJeremy last night about how 16/20 posts in a thread are almost always just trying to get the OP to fill in the information that should have been in the original post. It's like pulling teeth.
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@scottalanmiller It's ridiculous, and then in the midst of all that you end up with an inevitable pissing contest of people arguing semantics that no one even has clarification on yet because the OP hasn't actually identified the circumstances surrounding the issue.
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@r3dpand4 said in Websites like Mangolassi or Spiceworks:
@scottalanmiller It's ridiculous, and then in the midst of all that you end up with an inevitable pissing contest of people arguing semantics that no one even has clarification on yet because the OP hasn't actually identified the circumstances surrounding the issue.
Yes, once everyone works only from assumptions, it gets to be such a mess.
