@f0x I had always heard that IRC was where you went to be bitterly sassed, and the forum was where you went to actually be helped, and so I never went onto the IRC,,,

maybe it’s a good thing, ultimately, that the toxic people are losing their safe place?

@vy yeah...
I've mostly been hanging out in #nixos-chat (now #chat:nixos.org) which is actually quite nice usually. For technical questions the normal irc's have been quite helpful too, it's just the later wave of *just* the salty people left behind talking, who normally aren't even active...

@f0x I think part of it for me, also, is that IRC always felt inaccessible to me, though I have no doubt I’d be able to figure it out, and so I’ve just never really wanted to try to get into it.

Since I already use Matrix, I feel immediately more curious