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Is there a friendly and active chat community for Emacs? There are so many topics where asking for tips and opinions is valuable and doesn't fit well wikis or Q

Is there a friendly and active chat community for Emacs? There are so many topics where asking for tips and opinions is valuable and doesn't fit well wikis or Q&A formats.

hprotagonist 4y ago
#emacs on irc.libera.chat. fsbot knows too many things.
- agumonkey 4y ago
  #emacs is one of the sweetest place on the electronic universe. It can go weird, or bland, or smart.. but it's always cool. a lot of platforms and chans are filled with protocol heavy users and mods, and angry conversations on rails .. #emacs bubbles aside on its own, untainted by the storms.
  - DiabloD3 4y ago
    I'd also like to say its a great place. I hung out there for awhile when I was giving Emacs another 6 months of my life (as a lifelong vimmer), great community.
squeegee_scream 4y ago
Doom Emacs’ Discord chat is great, even if you’re not using Doom. Very friendly and helpful. Emacs subreddit is also good, helpful, and active
- wyclif 4y ago
  There's also a Vi and Vim StackExchange: https://vi.stackexchange.com/ https://vi.stackexchange.com/
xenodium 4y ago
Mastodon Emacs discussion is flourishing nicely. Lots going on at https://emacs.ch https://emacs.ch instance. I sometimes post Emacs things at https://indieweb.social/@xenodium https://indieweb.social/@xenodium
- BeetleB 4y ago
  Mastodon and/or emacs.ch is the way to go. I posted something over there recently and got a lot more traction than I ever did by posting on my blog and on Reddit.
- deleted 4y ago
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- Wowfunhappy 4y ago
  I'm on the generic mastodon.social but I don't understand how these topic-specific instances are supposed to work, unless emacs is literally your highest priority in life. Is the idea that you'd have a separate mastodon account for every topic you're interested in?
  - kristjansson 4y ago
    The idea (AFAICT) is that you follow/subscribe people on any instance from your account on your primary instance. This works, but the UX is terrible right now, you have to copy the users full handle (name@instance) and paste it into the follow dialogue on your primary instance.
    - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
      That all works perfectly fine IMHO, what I don't understand is why I'd make my account on an Emacs-focused instance unless literally all I ever wanted to talk about in life was Emacs! I could have five different accounts on five different instances on topics I'm interested in, but then which one do I log into if I just want to read my overall feed? I guess I'd have one primary account, and then I'd log into my secondary account on the paperclips instance when I wanted to toot about paperclips, but this is the point where the UX seems awfully complicated.
jdminhbg 4y ago
#emacs on Clojurians Slack is active and friendly. I’ve had luck there getting answers on questions I just couldn’t figure out how to Google.
bmacho 4y ago
ChatGPT maybe

Is there a friendly and active chat community for Emacs? There are so many topics where asking for tips and opinions is valuable and doesn't fit well wikis or Q&A formats.

hprotagonist 4y ago

#emacs on irc.libera.chat. fsbot knows too many things.

agumonkey 4y ago
#emacs is one of the sweetest place on the electronic universe. It can go weird, or bland, or smart.. but it's always cool. a lot of platforms and chans are filled with protocol heavy users and mods, and angry conversations on rails .. #emacs bubbles aside on its own, untainted by the storms.
- DiabloD3 4y ago
  I'd also like to say its a great place. I hung out there for awhile when I was giving Emacs another 6 months of my life (as a lifelong vimmer), great community.

squeegee_scream 4y ago

Doom Emacs’ Discord chat is great, even if you’re not using Doom. Very friendly and helpful. Emacs subreddit is also good, helpful, and active

wyclif 4y ago
There's also a Vi and Vim StackExchange: https://vi.stackexchange.com/ https://vi.stackexchange.com/

xenodium 4y ago

Mastodon Emacs discussion is flourishing nicely. Lots going on at https://emacs.ch https://emacs.ch instance. I sometimes post Emacs things at https://indieweb.social/@xenodium https://indieweb.social/@xenodium

BeetleB 4y ago
Mastodon and/or emacs.ch is the way to go. I posted something over there recently and got a lot more traction than I ever did by posting on my blog and on Reddit.
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Wowfunhappy 4y ago
I'm on the generic mastodon.social but I don't understand how these topic-specific instances are supposed to work, unless emacs is literally your highest priority in life. Is the idea that you'd have a separate mastodon account for every topic you're interested in?
- kristjansson 4y ago
  The idea (AFAICT) is that you follow/subscribe people on any instance from your account on your primary instance. This works, but the UX is terrible right now, you have to copy the users full handle (name@instance) and paste it into the follow dialogue on your primary instance.
  - Wowfunhappy 4y ago
    That all works perfectly fine IMHO, what I don't understand is why I'd make my account on an Emacs-focused instance unless literally all I ever wanted to talk about in life was Emacs! I could have five different accounts on five different instances on topics I'm interested in, but then which one do I log into if I just want to read my overall feed? I guess I'd have one primary account, and then I'd log into my secondary account on the paperclips instance when I wanted to toot about paperclips, but this is the point where the UX seems awfully complicated.

jdminhbg 4y ago

#emacs on Clojurians Slack is active and friendly. I’ve had luck there getting answers on questions I just couldn’t figure out how to Google.

bmacho 4y ago

ChatGPT maybe