Social chat in the forums

[rikki cattermole]

On 02/08/2021 9:19 AM, Brian Tiffin wrote:
> Question, or suggestion.  In the Community forums, there is General and 
> Announce.

Announce is only for announcements.

General is used sometimes for OT stuff, like I've congratulated Andrei 
on the birth of one of his kids (I asked prior). Or some stuff about 
COVID preparation.

> Where is the preferred place to *shoot the breeze*?  D adjacent, but 
> off-topic and mostly social (with the *desirable* assumption that the 
> audience is all D programmers and openly nerd minded).

Generally speaking, not here.

You might want to try Discord instead, long term searchable and we do 
have an off topic channel that has been used for discussions about 
things like electrical engineering. Although we do try to discourage 
stuff like political discussion in there due to the potential conflict 
it can create.