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4 Communities Every Coder Should Join

Jason C. McDonald on August 12, 2017

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Haider Ali

I would include Hacker News

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Ryan Norton

This is great. I hadn't heard of freenode, so thanks for that mention. Just want to restate how right you are about dev.to. Everyone here seems to be on the same level:a friendly community to help and learn from other developers. I've been so encouraged by so much here. Thanks everyone!

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Ben Halpern

I can't believe I didn't mention this when I first saw this post, thanks for including dev.to on the list! We do not take it for granted that everyone here totally gets it. But we're working hard to live up to the love the community has shown.

If you're reading this and you haven't joined yet, I suggest you come on board and hang around and leave some love and some comments for the other devs working so hard to share the knowledge.

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csgeek

I do think that dev.to should come with a surgeon warning. It might be a bit more addictive than tobacco. At least that's been my experience!

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Nahuel Jesús Sacchetti • Edited

I use Weechat for IRC. As well as a local bitlbee server for Hangouts and other stuff.

I agree with this post.

EDIT: Specially what you say about dev.to

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Afri Schoedon

IRC is slowly replaced by Riot/Matrix :)

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Jason C. McDonald

Eh, I disagree. Every chat protocol likes to believe they're replacing IRC, but that's never actually been the case. IRC is completely open, stable to the point of being virtually bug free, and decentralized. Very few of the alternatives can claim even two of those, and none can claim all three.

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Afri Schoedon

Oh, I am entirely on your side. IRC is incredible, and I am still using this. But the matrix protocol is not only open-source and open-protocol but also enables end-to-end encryption (like Signal) and data-federalization (like XMPP), both two key features IRC does not have. There has never been anything in the last 30 years that had the potential to replace IRC - and I'm not claiming this will happen - but Matrix could do that. ;)

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Sean O'Donnell

Thank you for suggesting Freenode/IRC and not some sorta lame Slack-based discussions. =)

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Nelson

Great post!
I would include Hacking Dsitributed also..I use HexChat for IRC

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Pratik Ambani

+1 fir"vibrant" phrase.

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Philip Karlsson

Great list! I'd also suggest a discord channel called The Programmers Hangout. They have changed changed else for morst languages and topics. And more important, a ton of super helpful people.