The traditional forum model is mostly a strength but has some drawbacks, strength is that you have a treasure trove of searchable knowledge and if you ask a question to the dedicated community you have high change to get a helpful reply, because almost everyone using that language is on that forum.

The drawback is that there is usually relatively little information outside of the forum and uncommon that code is shared on things like github, instead code sharing is typically done by copy&paste on the forum, which makes it a bit harder to track and standardize conventions.