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Social chat in the forums
Aug 01, 2021
Brian Tiffin
Aug 01, 2021
rikki cattermole
Aug 02, 2021
Brian Tiffin
August 01, 2021

Question, or suggestion. In the Community forums, there is General and Announce.

Where is the preferred place to shoot the breeze? D adjacent, but off-topic and mostly social (with the desirable assumption that the audience is all D programmers and openly nerd minded).

Within the forums that is, for the threads and being searchable in the near and far future.

Have good, make well.

August 02, 2021
On 02/08/2021 9:19 AM, Brian Tiffin wrote:
> Question, or suggestion.  In the Community forums, there is General and Announce.

Announce is only for announcements.

General is used sometimes for OT stuff, like I've congratulated Andrei on the birth of one of his kids (I asked prior). Or some stuff about COVID preparation.

> Where is the preferred place to *shoot the breeze*?  D adjacent, but off-topic and mostly social (with the *desirable* assumption that the audience is all D programmers and openly nerd minded).

Generally speaking, not here.

You might want to try Discord instead, long term searchable and we do have an off topic channel that has been used for discussions about things like electrical engineering. Although we do try to discourage stuff like political discussion in there due to the potential conflict it can create.
August 02, 2021
On Sunday, 1 August 2021 at 21:35:05 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 02/08/2021 9:19 AM, Brian Tiffin wrote:
>> Question, or suggestion.  In the Community forums, there is General and Announce.
>
> Announce is only for announcements.
>
> General is used sometimes for OT stuff, like I've congratulated Andrei on the birth of one of his kids (I asked prior). Or some stuff about COVID preparation.
>
>> Where is the preferred place to *shoot the breeze*?  D adjacent, but off-topic and mostly social (with the *desirable* assumption that the audience is all D programmers and openly nerd minded).
>
> Generally speaking, not here.
>
> You might want to try Discord instead, long term searchable and we do have an off topic channel that has been used for discussions about things like electrical engineering. Although we do try to discourage stuff like political discussion in there due to the potential conflict it can create.

Thanks, rikki.

Yeah, I guess it's Discord then.  I joined a group there a while back (Hercules mainframe emulation of old MVS and VM/370) and have figured out most of the settings to turn off the incessant flashing, beeping, and utter distractions to peripheral vision and perceptions; so, ok (typed in a remorseful sad face defeated mode).  ;-)

Have good.