Social chat in the forums
Brian Tiffin
btiffin at gnu.org
Mon Aug 2 00:49:59 UTC 2021
On Sunday, 1 August 2021 at 21:35:05 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> 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.
Thanks, rikki.
Yeah, I guess it's Discord then. I joined a group there a while
back (Hercules mainframe emulation of old MVS and VM/370) and
have figured out most of the settings to turn off the incessant
flashing, beeping, and utter distractions to peripheral vision
and perceptions; so, ok (typed in a remorseful sad face defeated
mode). ;-)
Have good.
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