diff --git a/docs/community.md b/docs/community.md index c320406760..6070f28651 100644 --- a/docs/community.md +++ b/docs/community.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ And of course, follow us on [Observable](https://observablehq.com/@observablehq? ## Getting help -We recommend asking for help on the [Observable forum](https://talk.observablehq.com/c/help/6). Or if you prefer chat, join the [Observable community Slack](https://observablehq.com/slack/join). +We recommend asking for help on [GitHub discussions](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions). We encourage you to share your work, no matter how messy, on [Observable](https://observablehq.com). Sharing live code is the easiest way to let people see what you see, and to debug your problem. Strive for a [minimal, reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) — it helps people hone in on your problem more quickly. @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ We’d love for you to join the community! Here are some ways to participate: * Upvote 👍 or comment on [GitHub issues](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/issues). We’d love your input on what to build next. If your desired feature isn’t already there, or if you’ve found a bug, file an issue and tell us about it. -* Answer questions or participate in discussions on the [Observable forum](https://talk.observablehq.com/) and the [Observable community Slack](https://observablehq.com/slack/join). You’ll help others, and might learn something yourself, too. +* Answer questions or participate in discussions on [GitHub](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions). You’ll help others, and might learn something yourself, too. + +* Join the [Observable community Slack](https://observablehq.com/slack/join) to meet others using Plot. * Open a pull request! Read our [guide to contributing](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md). diff --git a/docs/why-plot.md b/docs/why-plot.md index 236e62a935..e8be2aad6b 100644 --- a/docs/why-plot.md +++ b/docs/why-plot.md @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ We’ve long said that *D3 makes things possible, not necessarily easy.* And tha **Plot’s goal is to make the easy things easy, and fast, and then some.** :::tip -Whether or not Plot succeeds at this goal is up to you — so we’d love [your feedback](https://talk.observablehq.com/c/site-feedback/3) on what you find easy or hard to do with Plot. And we encourage you to [ask for help](https://talk.observablehq.com/c/help/6) when you get stuck. We learn a lot from helping! +Whether or not Plot succeeds at this goal is up to you — so we’d love [your feedback](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions/new/choose) on what you find easy or hard to do with Plot. And we encourage you to [ask for help](https://github.com/observablehq/plot/discussions/categories/q-a) when you get stuck. We learn a lot from helping! ::: Since Plot and D3 have different goals, they make different trade-offs. Plot is more efficient: you can make charts quickly. But it is also necessarily less expressive: bespoke visualizations with extensive animation and interaction, advanced techniques like force-directed graph layout, or even developing your own charting library, are better done with D3’s low-level API.