Somewhat agree with Dee that it depends which technology you're looking to get answers for. My experience has been that irc has always been the most convenient way to communicate with a large set of community of users. And we use it still somewhat often. To Justin's point, I've searched online for a specific subject and have found useful information from archives of old mailing lists or irc channel conversations. Though lately I've seen startups and more recent technologies using slack and even twitter to help answer user's questions. -SDA On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote: > Stopped using irc ages ago. Though my own private irc server is still > running, haven't used it in a long while. I've seen many companies filter > outbound irc ports simply because that traffic is more indicative of a > hacked system than someone trying to chat. > > Hopefully people figure things out on their own via the pretty rich > internet archives of already asked and answered questions. Besides, > learning what irc is and how to use it would likely result in a challenge > for many, it is a rather esoteric tool these days. > > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Sandwhich Eyes <sandwhicheyes at gmail.com> > Date: 9/11/16 8:42 AM (GMT-06:00) > To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Subject: [tclug-list] irc > > so do most people use irc now? > i notice the volume of this list has gone from around 15 or so emails a > day to 1 or 2 a week. > where are all the newbie questions being answered? > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160911/487d23e5/attachment.html>