Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> > wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Andrew Holway wrote: >>> No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of >>> a few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime >>> discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode >>> irc channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol >>> generally seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared >>> to modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost. >> >> Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/ >> > I raise your XKCD with another: https://xkcd.com/1810/ > >> I idle in #centos and #rhel and it doesn't seem particularly quiet. >> Maybe it's the hours -- that wouldn't change with Slack or any >> alternatives. >> I never got into IRC. However, I'll hit y'all back: usenet. mark "the good old days, before there were so many idiots online"