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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by ori_b on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:50PM (#22892804)
IRC is still, in my experience, the best place to get technical help and discussion for most projects.
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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by echelon on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:13PM (#22893026)
It absolutely still is.

If I have an in-depth technical question about Rust, I can make a post about it on the Rust subreddit, Stack Overflow, or the Rust community forums, but if I jump in IRC I'll have an answer in under five minutes and an interactive explanation.

IRC is the internet of the 90s and 00s. Without all the spam, advertisement, and noise.

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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by ghostpepper on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:31PM (#22893219)
Not to mention that often the author and/or contributors of the technology in question may be available to answer advanced questions.
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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by Polylactic_acid on Thursday April 16, 2020 @07:02PM (#22894473)
>Without all the spam

You must remember a different IRC to me. Spam bots were a semi frequent thing.

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Re:Freenode IRC logging archive Echelog is shutting down by hguant on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:11PM (#22893005)
The various haskell IRC channels are some of the best places to learn and get help/mentoring with that language - so many patient, genuinely helpful people. It's one of those things that made me go "Oh, that's what everyone is moaning abut" re demise of the old web etc.
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