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Microsoft DevBlogs now federated (devblogs.microsoft.com)

submitted 7 months ago by SmartmanApps@programming.dev to c/windows_dev@programming.dev

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Microsoft DevBlogs has just been federated and can be followed at @msftdevblogs@dotnet.social.

Thanks to @mapache@hachyderm.io!

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[–] testaccountcrosspost@mastodon.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think I'm just kind of being somewhat extreme about it too. I mean, like, Microsoft has had support forums in the past. (I think even some that have been removed, etc) Lots of stuff like this moved to reddit, but I could see it possibly being successful with federation today.

(There were reasons it failed, like, bad UI, miserable account control, differences in how answers were displayed, etc)

[–] SmartmanApps@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly! That's why I started the MAUI Community here. We used to have a thriving and vibrant Xamarin forum, then Microsoft shut it down and started what was supposed to be a new, more general one on one of their own domains, but all it achieved was it killed the community that we had. So Lemmy is quite similar to a forum (just lacks the ability to have a sub-topics hierarchy like the Xamarin forum had), so here I am trying to re-establish the Xamarin (now MAUI) community that we used to have. :-)