Social chat in the forums

[Brian Tiffin]

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.