what is this even for it everyone keeps getting to...

# android

[sbeve]

what is this even for it everyone keeps getting told to go to stack overflow?

[Daniele Andreoli]

Because if the question is not related to Kotlin language for android this is not the place. Android has a Slack for itself. And for related I mean that Kotlin could be responsable/involved/the problem for your question. Asking something related to parcelable/webview ecc... is not a kotlin issue.

[okarm]

That happens when people ask about topics unrelated to the Kotlin language. "How do I debug keyboard handling in Android" is a truly inappropriate question to ask here.

Not only is it completely irrelevant, but even if somebody helped resolve that issue, it wouldn't be indexed by search engines. Helping resolve unrelated issues therefore doubly damages the channel. First by asking in the first place and second by not publishing it for other people to learn. Assuming that publishing the problem would prevent repeated inquiries.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Jetbrains people have repeatedly said that they don't want this to be a generic forum. There's already one like that - StackOverflow. If your question is not Kotlin specific, people will tag it as stackoverflow or google

[sbeve]

I mean the channel is literally named Android

[sbeve]

@Daniele Andreoli could you link me to the slack for android

[okarm]

It has been proposed numerous times to rename this channel to kotlin-on-android or something similar exactly for that reason. It hasn't gained political favor yet.

Here are your links (taken directly from this channel's description no less): http://android-united.community/ or https://androidchat.co/

and the r/androiddev Discord: https://discord.com/invite/D2cNrqX

[sbeve]

thanks a lot. I am already in the discord server. You dont always get help there. Just submitted the form for the slack as well.

[okarm]

I think there might be other communities as well, didn't google for them.