Re: Where else do you hangout?

[Brian Knight via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 2025-08-20 19:35, Mark Prosser via NANOG 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?

In addition to others mentioned, I'll visit reddit.com/r/networking on 
occasion. New networking folk seem to gravitate towards that forum.

-Brian
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