I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I use it for saying things to people in general if it's not worth making a post.
I'm in two minds about it. One one hand, cool, it encourages socialisation more than a DM system like Twitter or Quora or such - on those places I feel like they're intrusive ways of talking to people, but a general channel is a great way to make friends.
On the other hand, it's never going to replace any of the 9000+ other chat systems people already use, and (as these comments demonstrate) people aren't going to use it.
If it was linked to IRC, say, or Slack by a bot so you could use the chat on the website or through your regular client, that'd be better.
If there were more signposts or certain things (like, say, mini AMA sessions) were held on chat, that might drive people there.
I'm sure there used to be some kind of "event" or "session" feature here for things like livestreams, which could have their chat linked to a chat channel too.
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I use it for saying things to people in general if it's not worth making a post.
I'm in two minds about it. One one hand, cool, it encourages socialisation more than a DM system like Twitter or Quora or such - on those places I feel like they're intrusive ways of talking to people, but a general channel is a great way to make friends.
On the other hand, it's never going to replace any of the 9000+ other chat systems people already use, and (as these comments demonstrate) people aren't going to use it.
If it was linked to IRC, say, or Slack by a bot so you could use the chat on the website or through your regular client, that'd be better.
If there were more signposts or certain things (like, say, mini AMA sessions) were held on chat, that might drive people there.
I'm sure there used to be some kind of "event" or "session" feature here for things like livestreams, which could have their chat linked to a chat channel too.