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I'm really happy with IRC. I frequent various freenode channels (#elixir-lang, #python, #django, #postgres, #kotlin, #centos and various others) and the people
by spapas82 6y ago
I'm really happy with IRC. I frequent various freenode channels (#elixir-lang, #python, #django, #postgres, #kotlin, #centos and various others) and the people there are really helpful and friendly, asking all kind of noob questions even if they have been asked many times. I also try to be helpful on topics I'm familiar with (f e Django).
Being able to ask or answer more or less anonymously without the points/gamification thing is liberating for me! And of course I feel better that I have stopped feeding the walled gardens line slack and friends.
Now with the help of services like irccloud or even just by using a web client you don't have any excuses to not use IRC. Just try it and thank me later; I'm serafeim on freenode :)
- natmaka 6y agoAll this (SO included) tend to dry up, often because "The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network" hits hard: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporative-cooling-effect-in-social-network/ https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2015/10/14/the-evaporativ... Islands do survive, and the IRC freenode #postgresql channel is indeed very useful.