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 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. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>