Re: Where else do you hangout?

[Joey Kelly via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Wednesday, August 20, 2025 7:39:28 PM CDT jim deleskie via NANOG wrote:
> I haven't been on IRC in a long long time.  Damn I'm old. :(

There's 2 people (bots?) on Libera #nanog, no ops and no topic, indicating 
much deadness. But I'm in #slackware.

--Joey


> On Wed, Aug 20, 2025, 8:36 PM Mark Prosser via NANOG
> <nanog () lists nanog org>
 wrote:
> > I was chatting with some industry colleagues recently and I realized
> > that various sectors of our industry are not "online" in the spaces I'm
> > online.
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps there was a time when most of us were on mailing lists & IRC,
> > but now the communities seem fragmented and behind walled gardens
> > (Mainly Discord and Slack .. the latter is deleting our messages faster
> > and faster).
> >
> >
> >
> > Personally, I'm subscribed to several discord groups (including NANOG),
> > several slack groups, a few mailing lists, IRC (I'm not on that often
> > these days), one or two Matrix groups, IETF Zulip...
> >
> >
> >
> > This quickly becomes cumbersome and I find myself mainly in Packet
> > Pushers & NAF Slack groups -- while being "reachable" in other places. I
> > feel like I'm missing out on conversations outside of the few bubbles I
> > participate in.
> >
> >
> >
> > Where do you spend most of your time, outside of this mailing list? Why
> > do you like it there? What kind of folks hangout there?
> >
> >
> >
> > Warm regards,
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Prosser
> > // E: mark () zealnetworks ca
> > // W: https://zealnetworks.ca
> >
> >
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Joey Kelly
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