While gitter generally is a good idea I have yet to land in a active channel. The partly abondened IRC channels often still show a lot more activity even when they link to their gitter in their meta.
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by bad_user on Thursday June 07, 2018 @07:52AM
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Not my experience, it depends on the community you're talking about I guess. Here's some channels I'm on, all being so active that I have a hard time keeping up:
- https://gitter.im/scala/scala
- https://gitter.im/scala-js/scala-js
- https://gitter.im/typelevel/cats
- https://gitter.im/typelevel/cats-effect
Which is also linked to GitHub accounts and repositories. Ironically, Gitter was bought by GitLab and open sourced, but they haven't changed the implementation to allow for chat rooms linked to GitLab repos. At the glacial pace it is evolving, it wouldn't be unfair to say that Gitter is probably relying solely on OSS contributions at this point.