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On 28/06/2023 18:21, Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
F= rom https://lists.freebsd.org/ :

> freebsd-questions=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 User questions

You might want freebsd-chat for general discussions of non-technical topics.

From the same page:

> Non technical items related to the community

The original link, which did interest me, (thank you, David) di= d have a technical slant (open source), however it was not directly related to FreeBSD or the FreeBSD community.

Numbers at <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-= chat/> suggest that there's close to zero interest in anything.

Re: <https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels>, #freebsd-social is notionally for off-topic/socialising, however when I was last there it was frequently used for technical discussions that should have been better in other areas. Technical knowledge shared there is lost.

The lobby at <https://discord.com/channels/72= 7023752348434432/727023752348434436> is social, added benefits (not seen with IRC) include threading. So it can be easier to find the social chat without the technical non-social chat. People do choose to take themselves away from the lobby, to more appropriate channels =E2=80=93 please see, for examp= le, this screenshot that can't be attached because (contrary to the rules expressed in the FreeBSD Handbook) some emails are never delivered.

FreeBSD via <https://matrix.to/#/#FreeBSD:matrix.org= > is more open, and Matrix/Element threading is debatably superior to Discord threading, however there's encouragement to keep things on topic (to FreeBSD) in this FreeBSD room.=C2=A0

<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-doc/pull= /187> was drafted to update Community and Support menus and content.

Last but not least, you can discuss anything related to free, libre and open source software in FOSS Lovers=E2=9D=A4

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