LinuxCNC Discord? (for chat & support)

rodw wrote: I'm with Andy. I like the forum and the time zone for me means that the IRC is buzzing at a very unfriendly hour...

Just looking back at yesterday and this morning there was only 4 hours of quiet on the IRC out of 24 hours...

JT

Incidentally, I logged in yesterday and ended up here:
discordapp.com/channels/144874964586201088/144874964586201088
Which contains some familiar names from the IRC;

Google also finds:
discordapp.com/channels/384743579345485826/384743579345485828

But that looks like the other EMC2, the guys with the evil lawyers.

pl7i92 wrote: i got a look at it and i don't think this is a way this system as so many spare areas is going to work
i will stay at the forum and as well in Europe the irc is not the timezone of irc

The IRC seems to suit my personal timezone

I like Discord because it doesn't seem to matter what your timezone is. Often times it's used like a bulletin board, but if someone happens to be available it acts like a chat. And with the search features you can find old topics much easier than you can on a forum. It also supports mobile media much better than a forum, or IRC, which is a huge help when diagnosing technical issues.

The forum has search too.
The only reason that it isn't particularly effective is because there is such a huge amount of stuff here now.

Another problem with searching the forum, is that it defaults to limiting results to 1 year old or newer, But there is often lots of older pertinent information (depending on what you're looking for.) It often helps to click on "any date" for that setting on the search page.