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IRC is still big for programming. Your language and/or framework of choice has a channel. The quality depends on the community, though. The best alternative to
by sotojuan 10y ago
IRC is still big for programming. Your language and/or framework of choice has a channel. The quality depends on the community, though.
The best alternative to IRC for "communities" is Discord. The React community uses it and it's quite fast and looks fine. It's also a bit like IRC in that you log in and then join networks with channels. It's meant for gamers though, so no text logging.
For GitHub projects, Gitter is great. Integrates well with GitHub and all it takes is one click. Performs fine too.
Every Slack chat for any open source community slows down my computer to a crawl. I love it for work and stuff, but no idea why people use it for 500+ people chats.