Re: Of interest ...

On 28/06/2023 18:21, Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
> From https://lists.freebsd.org/ :
>
> > freebsd-questions     User questions
>
> You might want freebsd-chat for general discussions of non-technical 
> topics.

 From the same page:

 > Non technical items related to the community

The original link, which did interest me, (thank you, David) /did/ have 
a technical slant (open source), however it was not directly related to 
FreeBSD or the FreeBSD community.

Numbers at <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-chat/> suggest 
that there's close to zero interest in anything.

Re: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels>, #freebsd-social is 
notionally for off-topic/socialising, however when I was last there it 
was frequently used for technical discussions that should have been 
better in other areas. Technical knowledge shared there is lost.

The lobby at 
<https://discord.com/channels/727023752348434432/727023752348434436> is 
social, added benefits (not seen with IRC) include threading. So it can 
be easier to find the social chat without the technical non-social chat. 
People do choose to take themselves away from the lobby, to more 
appropriate channels – please see, for example, this screenshot that 
can't be attached because (contrary to the rules expressed in the 
FreeBSD Handbook) some emails are never delivered.

FreeBSD via <https://matrix.to/#/#FreeBSD:matrix.org> is more open, and 
Matrix/Element threading is debatably superior to Discord threading, 
however there's encouragement to keep things on topic (to FreeBSD) in 
this FreeBSD room.

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull/187> was drafted to update 
Community and Support menus and content.

Last but not least, you can discuss anything related to free, libre and 
open source software in FOSS Lovers❤ 
<https://matrix.to/#/#foss_discussion:matrix.org>